XPost: can.politics, tor.general, ott.general   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   QMI Agency - Monday, December 15, 2014   
      
   Crown appeals 'unfit' robocall sentence   
      
      
   OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are seeking harsher punishment for convicted   
   robocaller and former Tory staffer Michael Sona.   
      
   The Crown said Monday they are appealing Sona's nine-month sentence "on the   
   basis that the sentence imposed by the trial judge was demonstrably unfit and   
   fails to reflect the gravity of the offence."   
      
   Sona was convicted in August of "wilfully preventing" voters in Guelph, Ont.,   
   from voting in the 2011 federal election by sending recorded robocalls to   
   hundreds of voters, directing them to wrong polling stations.   
      
   Though Sona was the only person charged with the crime, the trial judge   
   suggested he may have been helped by others.   
      
   Sona, who is considering appealing his conviction, has maintained his innocence   
   throughout and suggests he has been scapegoated by senior Conservatives.   
      
   Sona was granted bail Dec. 1 after applying to appeal his conviction and   
   sentence.   
      
   At the time, Judge Harry LaForme said Sona deserved to have the "opportunity to   
   have this court consider the fitness of his sentence before he is required to   
   serve it."   
      
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