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p>Article content OTTAWA - Elections Canada's hunt for the elusive Pierre Poutine has led investigators to a dead end.

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p>Article content Investigator Allan Mathews sought computer records from a website in Saskatchewan that allows users to browse the Internet anonymously.

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p>Elections Canada fails to find 'Pierre Poutine" clues in Saskatchewan.

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p>The agency believed that the company, Free Proxy Server, might have information that could help investigators identify the person responsible for the harassing and deceitful calls during the last election campaign.

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p>Article content However, a recently released court document shows the company told Elections Canada last month that Internet records that could aid in identifying Poutine are no longer in existence.

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p>"No documents or records seized from Marc Norris or freeproxyserver.ca," according to an order from the court that demanded company documents.

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p>"Records no longer exist."

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p>Poutine partnered with Edmonton's RackNine? Inc. to make thousands of robocalls directing voters in Guelph (Ont.) to the wrong polling places.

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p>Article content RackNine? turned over computer records showing someone known as Pierre Jones paid for the robocalls with a PayPal? account.

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p>Mathews was then able to track Jones' Internet Protocol (or IP address) to Free Proxy Server. The website hides the real IP address by acting as an intermediary or proxy.

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p>Mathews was then moved to Conquest, Sask. where Norris manages the website from his home.

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p>Mathews obtained an order from the court to access Free Proxy Server's computer file however, the process was an end in itself. Norris did not have any records that could have identified Poutine.

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p>According to Norris it is a common practice for old records to be thrown away after a certain period of time.

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p>He said, "It would be similar to yours, in that you fill your notebook each day with the latest story being written on, and then you keep adding these notebooks to your collection." https://wowwiki.org/ </p>

p>Article content "And when you eventually have to fill your office up, you fill up the building, you know it's not a good idea (to keep them)."

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p>He said he had followed the production order and had a conversation via phone with Elections Canada last month.

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p>"I satisfied the production order," Norris said. "After that I haven't heard anything."

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p>The trail hasn't been completely cold. Elections Canada believes the Poutine persona was the same IP address used by Marty Burke's worker at the Guelph Conservative candidate campaign office.

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p>Court documents from last week show that Burke campaign worker Andrew Prescott accessed RackNine?'s account via Rogers IP address 99.225.28.34.34 in Guelph. Poutine's RackNine? account was accessed by a different user with the same IP.

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p>Content of the article. The court documents don't state that Prescott registered on RackNine? as Jones or Poutine. Mathews claims he was supposed speak with Prescott on March 8, but Prescott's lawyer cancelled the interview the day prior to.

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p>Prescott has so far refused to any comment. He has referred The Canadian Press (which has not responded to a call) to his lawyer.

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p>Mathews was with an Tory lawyer. Two Tory campaign workers told Mathews that they had overheard a Burke staffer, Michael Sona, talking about American politics and harassing supporters of the party.

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p>Sona quit his job as Conservative MP Eve Adams' secretary after his name was circulated in relation to the phone calls.

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p>There is no evidence to suggest that Sona was involved, and he maintains that he did not have anything to do with voter suppression when he was working on the local campaign.

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