Here is the comment I posted at Eugene Forsey Liberal:
EFL, I don't have a transcript to hand, but at his news conference Tuesday morning, Dr. Ignatieff said something to the effect of:
"One thing people respect less than a loser is a sore loser."
A certain number of irregularities on nomination papers is common for all parties. That's why all parties routinely seek to have more than the 100 signatures required. Your party had the chance to examine the NDP's signatures prior to Madam Brosseau's confirmation as a candidate and chose not to do so.
Already, the neighbours on either side of the one complainant have confirmed that the NDP came to their house seeking signatures to nominate the NDP candidate. In both cases, they were clear that they understood what was being asked. It beggars belief that the canvasser would be clear at both the house on the left and the house on the right and would then lie at the house in the middle - especially when it seems that they were having no trouble persuading people to sign.
Now, even if you were to be successful in your tilt at this windmill, the result would be a $1 million byelection in which one of two outcomes is almost inevitable.
1) Either Madam Brosseau or another New Democrat candidate would win, in which case we would have spent $1 million for nothing.
OR
2) The Bloc Quebecois candidate would win, and we would have spent $1 million giving a boost to those who would rend our country in two.Vent your spleen, by all means. But there are reasons that your party has been so severely spanked by the electorate. Your collective conduct demonstrates that you have little interest in considering what those reasons might be.