Conservative Director Pierre Poilievre urges the liberal government to introduce changes to the Canadian elections, which would curb long voting demonstrations.
On Tuesday, Poilievre wrote a letter to Steven MacKinnon, Director of the Government House, saying that legislation should be brought before the lower room when parliament members return to Ottawa in September.
“This is not a democracy in action. It is an intentional attempt to manipulate the rules, confuse voters and weaken our confidence in our elections,” Poilievre wrote about the demonstrations presented in his letter.
A group of defenders in the election reform, known as the longest voting committee since Tuesday, 152 candidates had registered for the Alberta riding.
Poilievre lost his long-term Ottaw Riding from Carleton in the April General Election, with 91 candidates, most of which also contacted the longest voting committee.
Poilievre sent a letter to MacKinnon on social media, referring to the “longest voting scam” for demonstrations.
Although Poilievre only mentioned Battle River – Crowfoot and Carleton in his letter, the defenders have organized several long voting rounds in recent years – including liberal fortresses such as Toronto – ST. Paul and Lasa – Émard – Verdun in 2024.
There have been meters of voting rounds in these elections, which have led to delayed votes and have confused some voters.
The organizers of the Committee want to make a citizens’ meeting on the election reform and say that political parties are too reluctant to make government voters.
Poilievre says in a letter that the government should change the number of signatures that the candidate is required to be in the appointment form – from the current 100 to 0.5 % of the riding population. He also said that voters should only be allowed to sign one nomination form and that candidates should have only one official representative.
The longest voting committee has chosen several nomination forms and use the same official representative to represent all candidates.
In an e -mail for the CBC News site, the organizers rebuked the rule changes proposed by Poilievre.
“We have urged that politicians like Poilievre are aside and use themselves to decide decision -making by deciding on the rules of the election. The reason for the election legislation is only too much skin in the game to call shots. There are clear and inappropriate interest groups,”
Election Director Stéphane Perrault has demanded some changes he said he would help prevent long voting rounds.
Perrault claimed last fall before the Parliament’s Committee that “certain sanctions” should be prescribed for persons who sign – or encourage others to sign – as many candidates for the voting turn, even though he did not say what these consequences should be.
