Retired from federal elections.

After three federal elections, I prepared for a 4th this year. Unbeknownst to me,a clerical error from my 2018 PPC run put my name on an ineligible list. Only a judge can remove my name from the list.

Elections Canada makes errors 😳

Poor Mark Carney.

He lost seat #170 over an error make by Canada’s electoral administration, Elections Canada, whose job it is to run fair and honest elections. The linked video tells the story.

What’s more, several other ridings where the Liberal win was very close are also under Judicial review.

Mark Carney had a slim majority government for only a few days before it slipped through his fingers owing to mistakes at Elections Canada.

No one will lose any sleep over the clerical error that justified the decision by Elections Canada to add my name to its ‘Ineligible To Run’ list (I already did‼️). I could go to the effort to have it removed, but I have no good reason to seek a hearing with a federal judge to “argue my case”. The odds of winning my case are slim to none because the judge is an employee of the same government that I have criticized in every election.

2025 Ontario Election.

In our February election, I ran as an Independent with a single message:

“The #1 problem in Canada is TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT at every level - federal, provincial, municipal and international.”

When Elections Canada advised my riding’s Electoral Officer to deny me a meeting to register me as an Independent candidate, it was a mystery. She could not explain why because all that she knew was that my name was on the Ineligible To Run List.

It took several days for me to find the right employee in Elections Canada to offer the explanation and two potential remedies. Both required meeting with a judge if I wanted my name to be removed from the Lists. The explanation given was that my campaign report from my 2018 PPC election run was not prepared properly before the deadline (no one notified me 🤯), this procedural error constituted a violation of the Electoral Canada Act.

Why then?

Strange, I was allowed to run in the 2022 federal election without any mentioned of my past violation of the Elections Canada Act. Why did my name appear on the List in 2025?

Could it be that someone in Elections Canada was notified that my main message in the provincial election was ‘Too Much Government’ ❓😳. Was this considered a threat to federal institutional authority that needed to be silenced❓🤨

Now this‼️

Mark Carney’s power is slipping and all because Elections Canada has fumbled the ball. How much more power will slip through his fingers as more judicial reviews are completed in other ridings?

Cries for real change are always ignored.

Many political candidates over recent years have called for electoral reform, including recall legislation. However, any reform should also address elections integrity.

Public trust in Canada’s elections and their results has declined over the years.

Meanwhile, institutions like Elections Canada have become bigger, more expensive and more authoritarian in the exercise of their mandate.

Why can’t this issue be fixed?

Consider this…

If the entire Canadian economy can be run over digital banking systems that are wholly trusted by everyone to be accurate and efficient, why can’t our election systems meet that standard?

Recommendations …

I wrote Digital Direct Democracy in 2023. It is a 35-page ‘citizen white paper’ available in Kindle format on Amazon.

In writing DDD, I drew upon my 40-year IT career, and strong knowledge of Economics, to offer a secure digital systems approach to reform many processes performed under government authority.

The recommendations in DDD would revolutionize our democracy and provide a much stronger voice for every adult citizen to more democratically define their relationships with public institutions.

The crickets are still chirping loudly as I await a DDD response from someone (anyone?) with the appropriate government authority to explore the ideas in that white paper.🤨

Easy come. Easy go.

Positions of power and influence come easily to Mark Carney.

I doubt that even Mark could have predicted that the job of Prime Minister of Canada would land in his lap so quickly and easily. After all, he face virtually no competition for Liberal Party of Canada leadership and he was heralded as Canada’s saviour well before and during the rushed election by the press and all notable pundits.

Carney was launched to the heavily heights of national power from the relative obscurity of a ‘Canadian expat’ living in Britain. Whether he considers this “a dream come true”, or will come to view it as his “worst nightmare”, only he can answer.

Life at the top.

Time will tell through a series of judicial reviews, just how wobbly is Mark’s perch on political power.

I also expect that those reviews will cast much-needed light on the failings of Elections Canada, and show how easy it is to rig an election.

Hopefully, such reviews will x-ray the excessively-regulated processes and arcane methods employed by Canada’s national elections administrative watchdog.

Like the convoluted systems within most huge bureaucracies, Election Canada’s will produce errors, incentivize clandestine dealings, and inevitably reveal injustices.

My only purpose.

As a form federal candidate, I ran to only represent a set of ideas and ballot choices for the electorate to consider.

I relieved no compensation other than the personal satisfaction that the explicit ballot option for LESS GOVERNMENT would always exist in every election.

Now, even that option has been taken from me‼️😡

AND I consider this a significant loss for my riding’s constituents 😱

Unless someone else takes my place, no voter will have explicit ballot option to prioritize and choose lower taxes, smaller governments and much less red tape.

I blame Elections Canada.

EC’s administrative quagmire and biased rules serve to stack the odds of electoral success against any and all political candidates who do not fly blue, red, green or orange party colours.

Anyone who has ever been a federal candidate, either as an Independent or as a representative of one of the 12 registered smaller political parties, can attest to the truth of the above statement.

It’s as if Elections Canada exists to prevent and/or weed out the smallest of the 16 registered parties and ALL INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

It has become apparent to me that the power stakeholders within federal and provincial governments have exerted their power and influence to ensure that every election showcases the Liberals, Conservatives and, to a lesser extent, the NDP, BQ and Green parties.

In relative terms, all other voices are substantially silenced and marginalized. The mainstream & very pervasive media attention has the effect to muffle any voices that express opposition to the existing edifices of power and their incumbents.

My voice has been silenced.

It only took one small administrative error for my name to appear on an obscure list of former candidates who had allegedly violated some easy-to-miss clause in the Elections Canada Act.

No discussion or forgiveness was allowed to appeal my oversight except for a visit to a highly paid judge who likely has more pressing use of his or her time that to discuss clerical errors.

The verdict was made unknown to me sometime during 2020/21. It was only revealed to me years later when I attempted to run in 2025 as a federal INDEPENDENT candidate whose ‘DOGE Canada’ campaign message would surely have engendered concern and met resistance from within government institutions.

The judge remedy❓For me to schedule and appear before a federal judge is laughable. It simply manifests the authorization hubris and bureaucratic overreach that is endemic in the public sector 🧐.

Carney caught in the federal spider web.

I hope 🤞that Carney’s wings are clipped 🥊 and another federal election will take place sooner than later 😎.

I won’t participate, of course. My days of participation in the charades we call “federal elections” have come to an abrupt halt, compliments of Elections Canada.

The recent election which resulted in a Carney/Liberal win did not smell right on several levels 😛. Elections have rarely smelled clean ever since Trudeau Junior took power. They likely never will smell clean again until Elections Canada undergoes some serious reform.