It has been a week since the Conservatives' national elections defeats, including Pierre Poilievre's loss in an Ontario riding. The party is screaming foul because a group known as the Longest Ballot Committee was able to get 85 protest candidates on the ballot for a total of 91 candidates to choose from in Poilievre's riding.
"It shouldn't even have been allowed," says Brian Rushfeldt, a long-time conservative activist in Canada.
"I don't know that anybody in the history of this nation ever thought that that would happen, so there was no law to prevent it," he tells AFN. "Most of the candidates, nobody knew who they were. In fact, there's been an issue raised as to where some of the people that were on the ballot, are they even real people and exist."
He says the scheme was deliberate and effective.
"The whole thing was absolutely concocted by the Liberals. It's the only riding out of 340 ridings in Canada that that happened, and so it wasn't by accident," Rushfeldt notes of the Poilievre loss. "There were so many names on the ballot, people didn't even know who to vote for."
Apparently, there is going to be an investigation into the whole voting issue there, he says.
