Tory's vote-casting "inappropriate"

OTTAWA – Political party leaders can’t fish for votes wherever they like on television, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled yesterday. The CBSC received a complaint over an episode of Going Fishing that aired on Global on September 29, 2007 was a partisan pitch for the Conservative Party. Host Darryl Cronzy was shown fishing with John Tory, the leader of the Ontario Conservative Party. During the program, Cronzy asked Tory about the Conservatives’ policies on various fishing, hunting and wildlife management issues, and then said “Listen, I’m not telling you who to vote for”, but contradicted his verbal statement by...