The Conservative Party of Canada’s lawyers yesterday filed a second motion to dismiss the legal challenges of individual citizens seeking to overturn federal election results in seven ridings -- this time because it alleges the Council of Canadians’ support for the cases is “improper.”

The more than 750-page “omnibus” motion is nearly twice the size of the “budget” implementation act, Bill C-38, which seems concise by comparison at only 420 pages.

The day before the election last May, Elections Canada warned voters that they should ignore phone calls telling them that their polling station had changed -- calls that also sometimes instructed people that they would have to vote at new locations, often far from where they lived.

Earlier in the campaign, a number of opposition party candidates reported that voters in their ridings had been getting aggressive phone calls pretending to be from those opposition members' campaigns, and seemingly designed to antagonize voters.

In both cases, the Conservatives were quick to play see-no-evil-hear-no-evil. None of this has anything to do with us, they said. And our candidates, too, have been victims of dirty tricks.

This has been one of the most intense and heart-rending weeks of my writing life, and proof that Vancouver's upcoming election has turned into what I can only describe as exhausting, dramatic and completely uncertain, after being initially predicted as a sleeper.