Canada’s chief electoral officer has revealed around 7,000 illegal robocalls were made on election day from a phone number at the centre of the Pierre Poutine scandal in the riding of Guelph, Ont. In his first public appearance since the Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia News revealed ongoing Elections Canada investigations into misleading calls in Guelph and other ridings, Marc Mayrand said the fraudulent calls “should not be tolerated in a democracy.” National Post