Who cares about foreign interference or things like this trying to artificially suppress votes, our democracy is a joke anyways.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EErSKhC0CZs

Bonnie Critchley — who is running as an independent and pitching herself as an alternative to the Conservative leader, who she argues pushed Kurek out — has also called on the Longest Ballot Committee to back off.

In an open letter to the committee posted on her campaign website, Critchley said there is a “backlash” in the riding from voters who are worried that she is a “fake out” candidate.

“I don’t have a massive team, I don’t have backing from millions of people. I have to go door to door within my community and explain to my neighbours that I have nothing to do with you,” she wrote.

Can you guys imagine if he lost again?!

Highly unlikely but it’d be hilarious.

What’s your take. More liberals or more conservatives on the list

Please don’t make me dream to hard

It’s funny if you don’t like him (and i don’t) but i really don’t want this to be a regular thing going forward.

Agreed, but it’s up to the politicians (unfortunately) to fix the voting process. All we can do is sit back and enjoy the people pointing out the absurdities in the process.

Sorry, there’s no way he can lose now!

They need to implement skill-testing questions in order to qualify to be on the ballot. Haha

This is actually quite disappointing PP has a legitimate independent opponent that is center right and doesn’t adhere to CPC politics.

The Longest Ballot Committee has lost the plot on this one. I never supported them but if this is their level of political acumen than I would argue they do more harm than good.

This woman is heads and shoulders above CPC candidates.

I’m honestly very disappointed in the LBC. They’ve clearly lost the plot and have transition from activism to attention seeking.

If they’re a serious contender, then it shouldn’t matter how many people are on the ballot; their supporters will be voting for them by name.

Just like the LBC didn’t affect the end result in Carlton, it won’t make a huge difference here either.

I disagree with this tactic. As much as it may hurt Poilievre (I doubt it, really), it will hurt Critchley at least as much.

The idea is to show the failings in our electoral system, but I don’t see how it does that - and it plays into the hands of authoritarians who want to tightly vet the candidates appearing on a ballot.

If we had MMP voting, how would that stop enormous ballots from happening - other than encouraging the groups doing this to retire?

While I don’t want to see the number of signatures to get on a ballot increased, I don’t see a problem with requiring people to only sign on for one candidate.

Almost all of them are being created by an activist group, so they’ll universally be Liberal-party-hating left-leaning ideologues.

Thank you for the video.

From what I know of her, she seems solid and committed. When I first heard about her, and the anger being directed at Pierre, I started to get a little hope that even if he won she could suck enough of the votes up to be a loss compared to Damien and the Conservatives would axe his ass for two “losses”.

I have never liked or supported what the LBC is doing. I really don’t see how it is supposed to bring change to the electoral system beyond Parliament writing bills to make sure it can no longer happen, which will further hurt independent candidates at the polls because I can only assume the bills would make it harder to be a candidate in general.

I hope more people get revved up about this and start supporting her. From what I have seen of the other candidates besides Pierre, she seems to be the best choice for the area.

The joke is Poilievre running in this riding in the first place. The 100 other candidates are just making sure everyone gets the joke.

Not only do I not have an issue with someone signing for multiple candidate, I do not have a problem with hundreds of people on the ballot. Thousands.

Adding additional restrictions to candicy as a mechanism to preserve democracy is like fucking for virginity.

Secondly, it’s nobodies fucking business who I vote for, or whom I want the future OPTION to vote for. Not yours and certainly not the fucking governments. None of your business if I even had an opinion.

Although I hate to make a slippery slope argument, this ends as “registering” as a Republican or Democrat.

This isn’t a problem that requires solving, this is a feature.

1. I said legitimate opponent. Meaning she seems like a good person for the job. Not that she was a serious contender with a chance to win.

2. She’s an independent not an LPC or CPC member so you’re comparing apples to oranges.

3. Name recognition is the single most important factor in being elected. It’s factually incorrect to suggest that there would be no difference between a few independent candidates and over 100.

At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?

Honestly I’m all for having a party of fiscal responsibility. If only conservatives would step up to the plate and fulfill that role!

Yea seeing the mentality of the 2 commentors who support LBC has me questioning if it’s actually activism or just standard attention seeking behaviour.