MONTREAL — An upcoming byelection in Montreal will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections, breaking a record set earlier this summer in Toronto. At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept.
MONTREAL — An upcoming byelection in Montreal will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections, breaking a record set earlier this summer in Toronto.
Corriveau said when committee members went door-to-door asking for signatures to get prospective candidates on the ballot, one out of two people signed the papers. “The voting system is not the day-to-day concern of anybody in Canada right now, but people do agree it has to change,” he said. In the end, the final count wasn’t released until after 4 a.m. the following morning, when results showed Conservative candidate Don Stewart had unseated the governing Liberals, who had held the riding for more than 30 years.
In a video posted to Facebook, Eckstrom promises to “replace all of Quebec’s dairy cows with the vastly superior Albertan beef” if elected. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned in 2015 on a promise that it would be the last federal election under the first-past-the-post system, but then broke that vow in 2017.
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