The federal parties need to get on board with Elections Canada’s efforts to prevent foreign interference in nomination contests
The way federal political parties nominate their election candidates in each riding is often referred to as the “wild west,” and for good reason. It’s a free-for-all, with no consistent rules from party to party, no independent scrutiny of the voting process, and almost everything done at the whim of party leaders.
Every party operates the same way and none apologize for it, even if the practice evokes 19th-century ward-heelers, their thumbs under their suspenders, puffing on cigars and rigging nominations in smoky alehouses. Nomination contests, unlike elections, are largely unregulated by the Canada Elections Act. There is no verification, other than by the parties, of the residency status and age of electors, or of whether those electors are actual party members. What’s more, there is not even a requirement that those voting in nomination contests be Canadian citizens.
Those recommendations will not go anywhere, of course, unless politicians look past the interests of their parties.
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