Pollster considers law society complaint over Tory affidavit

OTTAWA — Pollster Frank Graves says he is considering a complaint to the law society over a Conservative Party lawyer’s charge that he is a Liberal partisan whose evidence should not be relied upon.

The Conservatives last week filed a motion that accuses Graves of “clear bias” against them and asks the Federal Court of Canada to toss out an affidavit he filed in a series of court challenges of the 2011 election results.

Graves had been asked by the Council of Canadians, which is backing the court applications, to study the effect of pre-recorded “robocalls” and live calls on the voter turnout in seven ridings at issue in the case. His affidavit is a key piece of evidence in the cases.

Tories attack Graves in court while government pays him to poll

The pollster that Conservative Party lawyers last week attacked as a Liberal partisan did more than $800,000 in work for the Conservative federal government last year.

Lawyers representing Conservatives MPs in a series of robocalls-related court challenges of the 2011 election results are trying to toss out evidence filed by Frank Graves of Ekos Research.