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Ron in Regina

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Yep, they used the rules as currently written to beat Poilievre. I assume you'd prefer it if only Conservative candidates were permitted to run at all (or at least to win), but that's not going to happen, so I suggest you throw yourself on the floor, kick your feet, and wail "It's not FAIR!"
Do you know why they did it?

It’s a protest, against Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, from four elections ago, back in 2015. Did they do this to the Liberal candidate literally right next door in the next riding in the same city? Probably on the same bus route overlapping in some cases? Nope. Isn’t that curious?

Guess who was & wasn’t forming government since 2015. Meh, whatever. It happened & it’s done now.
 

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Yep, they used the rules as currently written to beat Poilievre. I assume you'd prefer it if only Conservative candidates were permitted to run at all (or at least to win), but that's not going to happen, so I suggest you throw yourself on the floor, kick your feet, and wail "It's not FAIR!"
Except that 87 or 88 of these candidates have the same financial backer.
 

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Do you know why they did it?

It’s a protest, against Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, from four elections ago, back in 2015. Did they do this to the Liberal candidate literally right next door in the next riding in the same city? Probably on the same bus route overlapping in some cases? Nope. Isn’t that curious?

Guess who was & wasn’t forming government since 2015. Meh, whatever. It happened & it’s done now.
OK, so they got in their performative OUTRAGE, and Carny is the PM.

Everybody's happy.
 
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Ron in Regina

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This’ll learn those Liberals & their broken promises from four elections back, all with Liberal governments. This’ll put the fear of God into Carney & Trudeau both, so they never ever do that again…
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This’ll learn those Liberals & their broken promises from four elections back, all with Liberal governments. This’ll put the fear of God into Carney & Trudeau both, so they never ever do that again…
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Longest ballot committee planning 200-name ballot for Poilievre byelection
Long-running election protest stems from broken Trudeau promise to introduce election reform, do away with 'first-past-the-post' elections

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published May 05, 2025 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 2 minute read

OTTAWA — If you thought Carleton’s election ballot was long, you haven’t seen nothing yet.


That was the message Monday from the Longest Ballot Committee, which plans to once again unleash their long-running election reform protest on the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre hopes to win back a seat in the House of Commons — this time with a record-smashing 200-name ballot.

“2015 was supposed to be the last election by first-past-the-post, and of course that promise fell through” said committee spokesperson Donovan Eckstrom, referring to the contentious polling system that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned to do away with.

“It gets the conversation going — people say, ‘Why is this ballot so big?’ and then they look it up and say ‘Oh, that’s interesting’ — everybody smiles, and nobody gets upset.”

Eckstrom has run in numerous elections, both as an independent as part of longest ballot and for the Rhinoceros Party.


Last week, re-elected Conservative MP Damien Kurek offered to step aside to let Poilievre run after the Tory leader lost his seat in the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton on election night to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy.

Battle River-Crowfoot is a rural riding in east-central Alberta and is among the country’s safest Conservative seats. The PMO has yet to announce a date for that byelection.

While the committee planned to also run candidates in Prime MInister’s Mark Carney’s riding, his installation as Nepean’s Liberal candidate came too late to organize a protest there.

The committee’s work in Carleton produced a nearly metre-long ballot, listing 91 candidates — matching the record-breaking ballot in the Sept. 2024 federal byelection in LaSalle—Emard—Verdun.

That topped the previous record of 84 candidates for the June 2024 byelection in Toronto-St. Paul’s.


Responding to criticism and accusations of electoral interference after the committee chose to take action in Carleton, Eckstrom noted that while most of the anger came from Conservatives, their usual critics rank among Trudeau-supporting Liberals.

“Leading up to that point, it was the Liberals who thought the long ballot was a conniving scheme lead by Pierre Poilievre and the Koch brothers to take out (newly-elected Carleton MP) Bruce Fanjoy,” he said.

Eckstrom said that he suspects if bills like C-65 — an election reform bill that died on the order paper when Parliament was prorogued — gets reintroduced, the protest could be legislated out of existence.

“So instead of fixing it, they’re going to make it harder for regular people to run,” he said, adding that making their campaign illegal instead of fixing a broken electoral system is peak Canada.

“It’s like if my roof has a small leak, so let’s just tear down my house to rebuild it. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but that’s government for you.”

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“2015 was supposed to be the last election by first-past-the-post, and of course that promise fell through” said committee spokesperson Donovan Eckstrom, referring to the contentious polling system that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned to do away with.
Crazy Justin-ification eh?
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In the 2025 federal election, the Longest Ballot Committee targeted the Carleton riding in the Ottawa area, where Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was running but not the neighbouring riding that Liberal Mark Carney was running in in. Poilievre would end up losing his riding, with the group declaring victory.
 

Ron in Regina

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It also doesn’t help that the Liberals are implementing much of the Conservative agenda, starting with a carbon tax cut, an income tax cut and legislation to speed up major projects and resources development. The latter, Bill C-5, passed with the help of the Conservatives, and despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups, both key constituencies for the previous Liberal government.

Such a thing would have never happened under Trudeau, for whom electoral calculus and virtue-signalling trumped the national interest. He said it was a shame that a female president hadn’t been elected instead of Trump. Oh well…
So, much of the Conservative agenda was the middle ground. Hmmm….
 
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Long-ballot group signs up more candidates for byelection featuring Poilievre
Author of the article:Canadian Press
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Fakiha Baig
Published Jul 21, 2025 • 2 minute read

EDMONTON — An advocacy-protest group that broke its own record last week for putting the most candidates on an election ballot is now up to 132 for the federal Battle River–Crowfoot byelection in Alberta.


Elections Canada reported Monday that the 132 candidates sponsored by the Longest Ballot Committee are registered for the byelection, which features federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre running for a seat in Parliament.


The Longest Ballot Committee’s previous record of 91 candidates was broken last week when it reached 100.

The total number of candidates from all parties along with Independents was at 138 as of Monday afternoon. Candidates can continue signing up for another week ahead of the July 28 cutoff.



The Longest Ballot Committee has helped dozens of candidates register in multiple contests in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba since 2022 to draw attention to its cause. It wants a citizens’ assembly put in charge of crafting a new electoral system, arguing that political parties are reluctant to make the government more representative of a diverse electorate.


But critics say the committee’s efforts are undermining democracy by making voters navigate long, cumbersome and potentially overwhelming lists composed of mainly paper candidates.

Dillon Anderson, one of the 132 candidates signed by the Longest Ballot Committee, said the goal is change.

“We need to work towards reforming Canada,” Anderson said Monday in an interview from his home in Ontario. “Politicians shouldn’t be in charge of their own election rules.”


He said volunteers with the committee helped him gather signatures in the riding and guaranteed his candidacy, and said the group is gaining momentum. “It’s good. I think it’s Canadians realizing that their democracy needs change.”


Conservative Damien Kurek handily won Battle River–Crowfoot in the April general election but stepped down last month to allow Poilievre to run. Poilievre lost his long-held Ottawa seat of Carleton in the April vote with his former riding also a target of the Longest Ballot Committee.

Poilievre has criticized the long ballot initiative, suggesting it undermines the spirit of the democratic process.

The byelection has become contentious in recent days with Independent candidate Sarah Spanier saying she has stopped door-knocking due to death threats for her views on topics like transgender rights.

Also Monday, Mounties said in a news release that several candidates have received negative and, in some cases, potentially threatening commentary on social media platforms.

Sgt. Jeremy Houle said the threatening messages directed at various candidates did not meet the threshold of criminality but were concerning.