Supreme Court nullifies Liberal MP's election win by a single vote in Montreal-area riding - Carney loses a seat

[CdnFox]

A bit of a blow for Carney today, the supreme court did the right thing and throughout the election results for the connect riding which was won by one vote where it was discovered that a woman's vote was not counted because of a mistake at elections Canada

This means that carney is one more short of a majority than he was, at least till a byelection is held. 

Which means he realistically now needs three four crossers to have an actual functioning majority and there are more resignations and by-elections coming up as liberals who have announced their stepping down who were popular under Trudeau will have by-elections

That's bad news for Carney. Any chance of a majority outside of another election is probably out the window for this year and while he may not be vulnerable yet in the spring he could very well be extremely vulnerable in the polls by the fall. Even this spring he'll have to be careful not to be looking too heavy-handed. 

 

[WestCanMan]

4 hours ago, CdnFox said:

A bit of a blow for Carney today, the supreme court did the right thing and throughout the election results for the connect riding which was won by one vote where it was discovered that a woman's vote was not counted because of a mistake at elections Canada

This means that carney is one more short of a majority than he was, at least till a byelection is held. 

Which means he realistically now needs three four crossers to have an actual functioning majority and there are more resignations and by-elections coming up as liberals who have announced their stepping down who were popular under Trudeau will have by-elections

That's bad news for Carney. Any chance of a majority outside of another election is probably out the window for this year and while he may not be vulnerable yet in the spring he could very well be extremely vulnerable in the polls by the fall. Even this spring he'll have to be careful not to be looking too heavy-handed. 

 

It's bizarre that we even have another Lib PM after Trudeau's failure. We even have the same cabinet members, for the most part, but Carney somehow convinced his cultists that it's like a new gov't 😂

It doesn't seem to matter though. If there's another election the polls will all say that the Libs are ahead 58%-42% until the last weekend, when the polling will magically switch to 51-49 for no real reason, and then the CPC will win the popular vote but the Libs will wind up in gov't again. 

Our elections have 1% more integrity than the NoKo elections. Yay Canada.

[Michael Hardner]

4 hours ago, CdnFox said:

A bit of a blow for Carney today, the supreme court did the right thing and throughout the election results for the connect riding which was won by one vote where it was discovered that a woman's vote was not counted because of a mistake at elections Canada

 

I thought it was because of a postal error. As such, I thought it was a bad decision, however, my political Insider friend indicated that close elections will be more likely to have a second election called locally. 

 

I'd like that option because it wakes people in the writing up as to how close it is and therefore the second vote would be more reflective of what people actually want. Those who stayed away the first election would wake up and vote the second time. 

I concur with the implications for the Liberal government.

 

[CdnFox]

37 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

I thought it was because of a postal error. As such, I thought it was a bad decision,

 

Not exactly. Elections Canada made a typo on the 'self addressed return envelope" so the post office sent it to the wrong location and it wasn't counted. Not really a postal error per se. She got the letter back because there was no such address And that's how she knew it wasn't counted

Normally this would be a small slap on the wrist for elections Canada but when the writing was only won by a single vote it becomes extremely relevant.

And honestly the choice the supreme court had was to say that either every vote matters and this is important or every vote doesn't matter and elections Canada can screw up whenever they like and you don't get a say or a vote

I mean can you imagine the potential for abuse. This may have been an honest mistake but "accidentally" Sending the wrong address to writings that you know are predominantly one way or another could impact elections

42 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

my political Insider friend indicated that close elections will be more likely to have a second election called locally.

Oh for sure. And that's appropriate because this can't be the only person. The others may not have gotten their letters back or not piped up but it won't just be her envelope that was misaddressed.

42 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

people in the writing

HA! have to taken to using voice dictation now as well? Mine does that all the time, writing instead of riding  

[WestCanMan]

55 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Not exactly. Elections Canada made a typo on the 'self addressed return envelope" so the post office sent it to the wrong location and it wasn't counted. Not really a postal error per se. She got the letter back because there was no such address And that's how she knew it wasn't counted

How is it possible that just one envelope had the wrong return address on it? 

Elections Canada deals in massive volumes, so that return address would have come from a template that was printed thousands of times. 

A more likely scenario is that thousands of letters with that same address on them all ended up in limbo, and somehow a postie caught that one before it "got lost" in the system.

[August1991]

Our Supreme Judges receive a pay cheque.

We pay our judges.

We all pay taxes: our money is given to Supreme Judges.

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I would like to see a message: your $4500 tax payment was used to pay part of the PM's travel to BC.  

[ExFlyer]

Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux crosses floor to join Liberals

 

https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2026/02/18/conservative-mp-matt-jeneroux-joins-liberals/?

[CdnFox]

On 2/13/2026 at 5:29 PM, WestCanMan said:

How is it possible that just one envelope had the wrong return address on it? 

Elections Canada deals in massive volumes, so that return address would have come from a template that was printed thousands of times. 

A more likely scenario is that thousands of letters with that same address on them all ended up in limbo, and somehow a postie caught that one before it "got lost" in the system.

It isn't, a number of the ones sent to that area appellieren did. But they don't know how many people in that area tried to send one in 

THIS lady however got hers returned as 'no such recipient at this address' and that's when the error was discovered.  And she can show the ballot was for the bloc.  ANd they won by ONE vote.   

Just goes to show you never want to trust mail in ballots. 

Anyway the bloc has a good chance of winning it in a byelection so that'll put a strain on Carney's hope for a majority. 

 

[WestCanMan]

14 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Just goes to show you never want to trust mail in ballots. 

Recipe for cheating. 

[Shady]

It goes to show you that liberals and their supporters will nullify legitimate votes if it means it’s good for them.  These are the same people that insist that any vote no matter what should be counted in American elections.  These people have absolutely no principles at all.  

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Recipe for cheating. 

Bit of an open door for incompetence as well. Never let someone else carry your vote to the ballot box, and that's a thousand percent true for Canada Post of all people