Michael Sona's former roommate will be the first witness in the case against him today, in a trial that features former friends of the man accused of making misleading robocalls to Guelph, Ont., voters in the last federal election.
Chris Crawford was in charge of canvassing in Guelph for the Conservatives' 2011 campaign.
The other witnesses for the Crown include Sona's colleagues from that campaign and from Parliament Hill. The prosecutor says they're expected to say that Sona bragged about the misleading robocalls.
The witnesses also include:
- John White, who worked on Conservative candidate Marty Burke's campaign as chair of the get-out-the-vote effort.
- Matt McBain, who worked at Conservative Party headquarters during the 2011 election.
- Matt Meier, who owns RackNine, an automated calling service used to make the misleading calls.
- Chris Rougier, who was in charge of voter relations at the Conservative Party.
The most important witness in the Crown's case may be Andrew Prescott, the campaign's deputy and a friend of Sona's. Prescott signed an immunity agreement to protect him from whatever testimony he provides.
Prescott handled IT issues for the campaign and was the campaign's main contact with RackNine, the Edmonton-based company behind the services used to make the automated calls.
He is expected to testify Tuesday or Wednesday, followed by four witnesses who worked for the Conservative Party or for Conservative MPs on Parliament Hill.
The trial is to last eight days.
Sona has always said he had nothing to do with the calls, but faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the single charge of wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent a voter from casting a ballot.
Sona, 22 at the time of the campaign, was the director of communications for Conservative candidate Marty Burke.
Burke's campaign manager, Ken Morgan, moved to Kuwait in the months after the election and isn't expected to be back in Guelph to testify.
While hundreds of people outside Guelph also complained about misleading or harassing robocalls, a report by Elections Canada later found that there wasn't enough evidence to support the idea of a co-ordinated campaign to suppress the vote across the country.
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