MPs have left Elections Canada high and dry

If the Longest Ballot Committee is exposing a vulnerability in our democratic system, then it’s a legitimate question to be examined. But it shouldn’t take politicians being personally inconvenienced to want to actually take real action on any issue.
Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault raised the issue once again rearing its head with the Longest Ballot Committee during a November 2024 House committee meeting.

With the deadline now passed for candidates to register for the upcoming byelection in Battle River–Crowfoot, Alta., the final tally of names that will be on the ballot clocks in at a record of more than 210.

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