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The Manitoba government presented a bill on Tuesday to repress the disinformation of the elections. It offers several provisions against deliberate attempts to undermine confidence in the elections and the use of modified images of candidates and electoral officials.

“It follows time. This strengthens part of the legislation we have, “said Minister of Justice Matt Wiebe.

The bill is partly a response to a report last year of the director of chief elections Shipra Verma. She called for the expansion of the Provincial Elections Act, which already prohibits people from disseminating false information on candidates, identifying electoral officials and more. Penalties include fines of up to $ 10,000 and a year in prison.

Verma has called for legislation to also prohibit false information objectively on elections, the electoral process, the equipment used in the elections and more.

If it is adopted, the Bill of the Government of the NPD would prohibit intentionally misleading information, which led to an election, on the eligibility for voters, the conduct of elections and people who provide ballots and voting counting machines.

There is also a provision to prohibit so -called “facked” – modified electronic images or audio records – aimed at affecting election results.

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The bill would also give the election commissioner the power to move quickly. The commissioner would have the right to issue a “stop notice” and the person behind the suspected disinformation would have 24 hours, in most cases, to comply.

The penalty not to comply would be up to $ 20,000 per day.

The government has worked to ensure that the bill makes the difference between poor information and information deliberately false and designed to mislead, said Wiebe.

Many of the relevant sections of the bill are formulated in such a way that offenders are people who release material “knowing that the declaration is false, or having a reckless contempt as to whether it is false.”

The bill also contains a change to guarantee that the public has a way to complain about political advertisements. Political parties would be required to set up an ethical code accessible to the public on advertising which would include a process of processing complaints.

Wiebe said that the provision is based on advertisements of the 2023 elections progressives who promoted the fact that they had, while the government, rejected calls to search a discharge from the Winnipeg region for the remains of two victims of murder.

The advertisements cited security risks in the discharge and were criticized even in the conservative ranks. The acting party leader Wayne Ewasko recently apologized for the way the discharge decision was treated.

Wiebe described the “deeply harmful” announcements and said the bill would ensure transparency.

The bill would also expand the number of days for surveys in advance and, on election day, would allow voters to vote in any return office of the province.

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The Manitoba government presented a bill on Tuesday to repress the disinformation of the elections. It offers several provisions against deliberate attempts to undermine confidence in the elections and the use of modified images of candidates and electoral officials.

“It follows time. This strengthens part of the legislation we have, “said Minister of Justice Matt Wiebe.

The bill is partly a response to a report last year of the director of chief elections Shipra Verma. She called for the expansion of the Provincial Elections Act, which already prohibits people from disseminating false information on candidates, identifying electoral officials and more. Penalties include fines of up to $ 10,000 and a year in prison.

Verma has called for legislation to also prohibit false information objectively on elections, the electoral process, the equipment used in the elections and more.

If it is adopted, the Bill of the Government of the NPD would prohibit intentionally misleading information, which led to an election, on the eligibility for voters, the conduct of elections and people who provide ballots and voting counting machines.

There is also a provision to prohibit so -called “facked” – modified electronic images or audio records – aimed at affecting election results.

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The bill would also give the election commissioner the power to move quickly. The commissioner would have the right to issue a “stop notice” and the person behind the suspected disinformation would have 24 hours, in most cases, to comply.

The penalty not to comply would be up to $ 20,000 per day.

The government has worked to ensure that the bill makes the difference between poor information and information deliberately false and designed to mislead, said Wiebe.

Many of the relevant sections of the bill are formulated in such a way that offenders are people who release material “knowing that the declaration is false, or having a reckless contempt as to whether it is false.”

The bill also contains a change to guarantee that the public has a way to complain about political advertisements. Political parties would be required to set up an ethical code accessible to the public on advertising which would include a process of processing complaints.

Wiebe said that the provision is based on advertisements of the 2023 elections progressives who promoted the fact that they had, while the government, rejected calls to search a discharge from the Winnipeg region for the remains of two victims of murder.

The advertisements cited security risks in the discharge and were criticized even in the conservative ranks. The acting party leader Wayne Ewasko recently apologized for the way the discharge decision was treated.

Wiebe described the “deeply harmful” announcements and said the bill would ensure transparency.

The bill would also expand the number of days for surveys in advance and, on election day, would allow voters to vote in any return office of the province.

& Copy 2025 the Canadian press

The Manitoba government presented a bill on Tuesday to repress the disinformation of the elections. It offers several provisions against deliberate attempts to undermine confidence in the elections and the use of modified images of candidates and electoral officials.

“It follows time. This strengthens part of the legislation we have, “said Minister of Justice Matt Wiebe.

The bill is partly a response to a report last year of the director of chief elections Shipra Verma. She called for the expansion of the Provincial Elections Act, which already prohibits people from disseminating false information on candidates, identifying electoral officials and more. Penalties include fines of up to $ 10,000 and a year in prison.

Verma has called for legislation to also prohibit false information objectively on elections, the electoral process, the equipment used in the elections and more.

If it is adopted, the Bill of the Government of the NPD would prohibit intentionally misleading information, which led to an election, on the eligibility for voters, the conduct of elections and people who provide ballots and voting counting machines.

There is also a provision to prohibit so -called “facked” – modified electronic images or audio records – aimed at affecting election results.

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The bill would also give the election commissioner the power to move quickly. The commissioner would have the right to issue a “stop notice” and the person behind the suspected disinformation would have 24 hours, in most cases, to comply.

The penalty not to comply would be up to $ 20,000 per day.

The government has worked to ensure that the bill makes the difference between poor information and information deliberately false and designed to mislead, said Wiebe.

Many of the relevant sections of the bill are formulated in such a way that offenders are people who release material “knowing that the declaration is false, or having a reckless contempt as to whether it is false.”

The bill also contains a change to guarantee that the public has a way to complain about political advertisements. Political parties would be required to set up an ethical code accessible to the public on advertising which would include a process of processing complaints.

Wiebe said that the provision is based on advertisements of the 2023 elections progressives who promoted the fact that they had, while the government, rejected calls to search a discharge from the Winnipeg region for the remains of two victims of murder.

The advertisements cited security risks in the discharge and were criticized even in the conservative ranks. The acting party leader Wayne Ewasko recently apologized for the way the discharge decision was treated.

Wiebe described the “deeply harmful” announcements and said the bill would ensure transparency.

The bill would also expand the number of days for surveys in advance and, on election day, would allow voters to vote in any return office of the province.

& Copy 2025 the Canadian press