Unreasonable To Cancel Election Won By Single Vote, Lawyer For Liberal Mp Says - Beritaja

The lawyer for a Quebec Liberal MP who won her riding successful the April federal election by a azygous ballot says it would beryllium unreasonable to cancel the consequence complete 1 uncounted ballot.

Tatiana Auguste’s lawyer told a proceeding successful St-Jérôme, Que. that ordering a caller predetermination would efficaciously contradict the correct to ballot to the much than 60,000 group who formed ballots successful the Terrebonne riding.

Quebec Superior Court agreed to perceive the lawsuit aft erstwhile Bloc Québécois campaigner Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné challenged the predetermination results successful the riding.

She launched the situation aft a Bloc elector revealed that her typical ballot was returned to her because of an correction successful the reside connected the letter cover provided by Elections Canada.

Auguste’s lawyer Marc-Étienne Vien told the tribunal that location are well-known risks to voting by mail, and it’s not Elections Canada’s work to guarantee mail-in ballots get astatine polling stations.

Sinclair-Desgagné’s lawyer antecedently based on the voter’s Charter authorities were violated and said a caller predetermination should beryllium ordered successful the riding.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 21, 2025.