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Elections Canada has called October federal byelections to fill three empty seats in the House of Commons, fuelling speculation a general election will not be called early.
The byelections would be held in Ottawa West-Nepean, Peterborough and Sudbury on Oct. 19, the next fixed date for a federal election.
The Ottawa West-Nepean parliamentary seat was left vacant after Conservative and former Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird resigned his seat in March. He has since joined boards at Barrick Gold Corp and Canadian Pacific.
The Peterborough riding was left vacant when former Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary to the prime minister Dean Del Mastro was found guilty in October 2014 of overspending on his 2008 federal campaign, and he subsequently resigned. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26; the Crown is seeking a nine- to 12-month jail term.
The Sudbury riding was left vacant when then-NDP MP Glen Thibeault resigned his post in December 2014 to run for the provincial Liberals. Ontario’s chief electoral officer has since concluded that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s deputy chief of staff and a Liberal activist contravened the Elections Act when they offered Andrew Olivier, a would-be Sudbury candidate, a public appointment in exchange for withdrawing his candidacy to benefit Thibeault.
The date for these byelections was directed by the cabinet, via the governor general to Elections Canada. All byelections are immediately cancelled when a federal election is called.
The byelection for the Peterborough riding would have had to be called by May 6, 180 days after the riding became vacant, as per the Canada Elections Act. The minimum requirement of a 37-day campaign period would have put the byelection in June.
The deadline for byelection writs for Sudbury riding was July and Ottawa West-Nepean was October, said Elections Canada spokeswoman Diane Benson.
She said this is not the first time byelections were called on the fixed election date; in 2008 five byelections were superseded by a general election call.
The “fixed election date” is flexible; elections may be called by dissolution of Parliament, and other dates may be recommended by the chief electoral officer. However, a federal election must be held no later than a week after the fixed date.
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The byelections would be held in Ottawa West-Nepean, Peterborough and Sudbury on Oct. 19, the next fixed date for a federal election.
The Ottawa West-Nepean parliamentary seat was left vacant after Conservative and former Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird resigned his seat in March. He has since joined boards at Barrick Gold Corp and Canadian Pacific.
The Peterborough riding was left vacant when former Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary to the prime minister Dean Del Mastro was found guilty in October 2014 of overspending on his 2008 federal campaign, and he subsequently resigned. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26; the Crown is seeking a nine- to 12-month jail term.
The Sudbury riding was left vacant when then-NDP MP Glen Thibeault resigned his post in December 2014 to run for the provincial Liberals. Ontario’s chief electoral officer has since concluded that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s deputy chief of staff and a Liberal activist contravened the Elections Act when they offered Andrew Olivier, a would-be Sudbury candidate, a public appointment in exchange for withdrawing his candidacy to benefit Thibeault.
The date for these byelections was directed by the cabinet, via the governor general to Elections Canada. All byelections are immediately cancelled when a federal election is called.
The byelection for the Peterborough riding would have had to be called by May 6, 180 days after the riding became vacant, as per the Canada Elections Act. The minimum requirement of a 37-day campaign period would have put the byelection in June.
The deadline for byelection writs for Sudbury riding was July and Ottawa West-Nepean was October, said Elections Canada spokeswoman Diane Benson.
She said this is not the first time byelections were called on the fixed election date; in 2008 five byelections were superseded by a general election call.
The “fixed election date” is flexible; elections may be called by dissolution of Parliament, and other dates may be recommended by the chief electoral officer. However, a federal election must be held no later than a week after the fixed date.
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