Nothing was stolen, noting was unfair, they both faced the same likelihood that a ballot would be mailed back. We do need to be better than fair though, we need to eliminate the appearance of unfairness. These are two different things.
It would cost a sum of money but I agree she should step down and force a bi election. The longer she waits the more people may resent her and vote against her because of something she didn't until now control.
Your writing and persistent harshly negative tone makes it insufferable to even make an attempt at enjoying your writing. This was a mistake and not some cynical unimaginable gaffe.
I don't know about you but normally when mistakes are made, the response is to try and make things right. Why would you not do so in this instance? It's pretty important after all.
Never said otherwise, I think a by election should be held. Just don’t think this tone is appropriate for things that can happen and overall voting went very smoothly other than a few hiccups
Ah, tone policing, ok. I thought the author's issue was not so much that mistakes were made, which is normal, we are all just human, but that nothing was being done to rectify said mistakes. Gotta say if I were Canadian I would be rather snippy about it myself.
For the sake of democracy? What is more democratic than getting it right? No matter what it takes. As for Terrbonne being with out an MP, they will live. Trust me, I live near by. People in Terrebonne are more worried about their lawns and gardens, potholes, their kids soccer games, and booking summer camp, vacations not in Maine or Wildwood. Parliament will be out in about a month. Believe me this is a minor distraction.
Possibly Monsieur Blanchet should be the one to say enough of this and tell his candidate to step back. Elections Canada got nothing wrong. They followed protocols , the recount was mandatory, it was supervised. We had close races all over the country. The results were confirmed. Stop the drama, the negativity, please?
Your claim that a losing party challenging this sort of close result has never happened before in Canada” is completely false.
Our election laws have always allowed for a losing candidate to file a legal challenge to election results. And if they can demonstrate that there are more irregularities than the margin (and you are claiming 22 times as many are already identified) then the result can be thrown out. The technical term is controverted, and it has happened many times in Canada.
This is not some great scandal. This is you demonstrating your ignorance of how our system actually works.
Nothing was stolen, noting was unfair, they both faced the same likelihood that a ballot would be mailed back. We do need to be better than fair though, we need to eliminate the appearance of unfairness. These are two different things.
It would cost a sum of money but I agree she should step down and force a bi election. The longer she waits the more people may resent her and vote against her because of something she didn't until now control.
Your writing and persistent harshly negative tone makes it insufferable to even make an attempt at enjoying your writing. This was a mistake and not some cynical unimaginable gaffe.
I don't know about you but normally when mistakes are made, the response is to try and make things right. Why would you not do so in this instance? It's pretty important after all.
Never said otherwise, I think a by election should be held. Just don’t think this tone is appropriate for things that can happen and overall voting went very smoothly other than a few hiccups
Ah, tone policing, ok. I thought the author's issue was not so much that mistakes were made, which is normal, we are all just human, but that nothing was being done to rectify said mistakes. Gotta say if I were Canadian I would be rather snippy about it myself.
For the sake of democracy? What is more democratic than getting it right? No matter what it takes. As for Terrbonne being with out an MP, they will live. Trust me, I live near by. People in Terrebonne are more worried about their lawns and gardens, potholes, their kids soccer games, and booking summer camp, vacations not in Maine or Wildwood. Parliament will be out in about a month. Believe me this is a minor distraction.
Possibly Monsieur Blanchet should be the one to say enough of this and tell his candidate to step back. Elections Canada got nothing wrong. They followed protocols , the recount was mandatory, it was supervised. We had close races all over the country. The results were confirmed. Stop the drama, the negativity, please?
This is a silly column.
Your claim that a losing party challenging this sort of close result has never happened before in Canada” is completely false.
Our election laws have always allowed for a losing candidate to file a legal challenge to election results. And if they can demonstrate that there are more irregularities than the margin (and you are claiming 22 times as many are already identified) then the result can be thrown out. The technical term is controverted, and it has happened many times in Canada.
This is not some great scandal. This is you demonstrating your ignorance of how our system actually works.