The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Liberals ＂win＂ riding by 1 vote - Judge blocks new election with insane ruling!

00:00:00.320 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. This is an absolutely absurd decision from a judge

00:00:07.520 in the case of the Terrebonne riding in the federal election. If you don't remember,

00:00:13.360 the Terrebonne riding was a Quebec federal riding that the Liberal Party won by one vote.

00:00:21.360 And I am not saying in this video that a close election requires a by-election to decide who

00:00:27.440 really won. People can sometimes win by one vote. There are famous cases where we have razor-thin

00:00:33.600 elections where one candidate beat the other by a handful of votes or even sometimes just

00:00:38.560 one vote. But this riding absolutely needed a redo because the only reason the Liberal candidate won

00:00:46.800 by a single vote may have been, and when I say may have been, it's an extremely strong likelihood,

00:00:52.960 because Elections Canada put the wrong returning address on the mail and ballot envelopes,

00:00:59.120 and so a bunch of people who wanted to vote for the Bloc Québécois even came out after the election

00:01:03.840 saying, I sent in a ballot and it was bounced back to me because Elections Canada messed up

00:01:09.040 and it gave me the wrong returning address. But according to a judge, that really doesn't matter.

00:01:15.280 Right here, it's an article from the CBC. It is translated from French, so if there's any

00:01:19.920 awkward wordings, that's probably the reason why. This article, the headline reads,

00:01:27.200 the federal election in Terrebonne will not be repeated. Voters in the federal riding of Terrebonne

00:01:33.760 will not have to return to the polls the Superior Court has ruled. The Bloc Québécois, which contested

00:01:39.280 the result due to a postal code error, will be able to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

00:01:44.960 Lawyers for the Liberal Party of Canada and Bloc Québécois clashed last week at the St.

00:01:49.200 Jerome Courthouse to debate whether or not to re-run the vote in the Terrebonne

00:01:55.040 riding following a postal code error. Outgoing MP Nathalie Sinclair-Descage

00:02:02.640 I don't know how to read French. Descage is my best guess, sorry guys,

00:02:06.880 contested the election result and demanded a rematch. After a judicial recount, her Liberal opponent,

00:02:13.840 Tatiana Agusti won with a majority of just one vote. After three days of hearings, the court concluded

00:02:22.560 that the error in question does not constitute grounds for contesting the election. What can

00:02:28.000 you contest an election over then? What if somebody literally runs into the polling station with a bunch

00:02:33.200 of fake ballots and just dumps them into the ballot box right there? Like what kind of insane errors would

00:02:38.960 be allowed if that's not, if elections can be giving the wrong information to people for voting, causing

00:02:45.920 them to not have their votes counted, doesn't count as something worth re-running an election in? Because

00:02:51.600 I can't tell you if the mail-in votes that bounce back were more Liberal or more Bloc Québécois,

00:02:56.480 and within one vote, that's a pretty big assumption to be making that it doesn't really matter. It's

00:03:02.320 just a minor little error and it could have gone either way, so let's just let whoever won, won.

00:03:07.520 It's like, well, we don't know if they won. That's the problem. Again, outside of obvious fraud,

00:03:13.120 outside of one side being caught red-handed like stuffing ballot boxes, what would the court actually

00:03:20.800 decide to re-run a race for? This is a great quote. Quote, this was a human error, as sometimes happens

00:03:29.360 in general elections, committed inadvertently and without any dishonest or malicious intent.

00:03:34.720 This error in no way affects the integrity of the Canadian electoral system in which citizens can

00:03:39.920 still have confidence. You know what? I have no problem with the Canadian electoral system. I have a

00:03:45.040 problem with the court system right now because, yes, errors can happen inadvertently. And by the way,

00:03:51.440 when some errors inadvertently happen in an election this close, you re-run it. When it affected more

00:03:58.640 ballots than the person who won by, won by, or won, won by, let it go again. Just why? What if there's

00:04:08.720 obviously issues that affect that or within the margin of victory, we should probably be looking

00:04:14.800 at that. And this is just such a hand wave away issue. And it's almost like they're kind of saying

00:04:19.600 like, well, if you don't accept this decision, it's almost like you believe in the 2020 style

00:04:26.720 election denial from the U.S. What? Just accept the decision. And I'm happy that the Bloc Québécois looks 0.54

00:04:32.960 like it is going to be appealing this to the Supreme Court because why wouldn't you? This is

00:04:39.040 just basically the theft of a seat. The Liberals did not earn the seat properly and so it should be

00:04:44.640 re-ran. And it's the theft of a seat not by the Liberals, not like they did any shenanigans to get

00:04:50.080 this to happen. It's Elections Canada being incompetent and the judge saying, who cares if

00:04:54.400 there's incompetence? It happens sometimes. Okay, it happens sometimes and in those times we re-run the

00:05:00.080 election if it affects the outcome. It says, the court was seized following a complaint from a

00:05:05.920 voter in the riding who claims to have voted for the Bloc Québécois but who had her mail-in ballot

00:05:10.480 returned four days after the election because of an address error on the envelope provided

00:05:15.600 by Elections Canada. Counting this vote would make the result a tie. The Superior Court of Quebec

00:05:21.280 ruled that it would be unreasonable to annul the election in Terrebonne even if it were to assume that

00:05:26.320 the error constituted an irregularity. That had an impact on the result of the vote since the voter

00:05:32.800 was not permanently prevented from voting. What the heck? Yeah, they were. They were permanently

00:05:37.760 prevented from voting because they thought that they had voted and Elections Canada just kind of

00:05:41.920 bumbled it and they didn't get notified that, oh yeah, your vote's not actually going to count.

00:05:46.000 You had to go do it again until four days after the election. This is stupid. It goes on to say this,

00:05:53.360 no harm to the integrity electoral system. Like, what kind of quote is that? Yes, there's harm.

00:06:00.160 When you mess up something this badly, there is harm. Sorry, oh my goodness, I hate when I lose my

00:06:03.920 plays like this. Quote, she had means at her disposal to ensure that her vote reached its destination, 1.00

00:06:10.720 which means she, which she did not use, the court said in his 33-page decision. The voter could have

00:06:16.880 gone to the polling station and voted in person on election day. The court continued before adding that

00:06:22.160 election day, April 28th, 2025, of the right to vote. Like, what? This is where the French probably 0.98

00:06:28.080 mixes with the thing a bit where I'm translating from French to English, so the words might not be

00:06:33.120 accurate. Well, she could have technically just voted in person. Okay, that doesn't change the fact

00:06:40.080 that she was effectively, accidentally defrauded by Elections Canada by saying, hey, do you want to mail

00:06:46.800 in a ballot? It's a perfectly legitimate way of voting, just like walking in person. She does it,

00:06:52.320 she fills out properly, and she sends it back, and the only mistake that was made was Elections Canada

00:06:58.080 giving her the wrong return address. So a voter's just supposed to assume that the return addresses

00:07:03.040 could be completely wrong, and the court's going to let them off the hook, the Elections Canada off

00:07:07.360 the hook, and they don't have to rerun the election because, ah, you should assume people could

00:07:10.960 have messed it up and you should just vote in person. Then don't have mail-in. Then don't have all

00:07:14.720 these other ways of voting through provisional ballot and whatnot. It's so stupid, as I am saying.

00:07:21.680 And this writing matters a lot because the Liberals do not have, like, are very, very close to having

00:07:28.400 a majority. Them losing an extra seat actually does give parties like the NDP more power. It makes it

00:07:35.520 harder for the Liberals to get to a majority to pass legislation. Yes, the NDP tends to vote as a block,

00:07:41.920 the block tends to vote as a block, and the Liberals only need one of those parties or the other to

00:07:46.320 support them on stuff. But there are going to be votes where they can't get the block on board, and

00:07:51.040 Elizabeth May doesn't really add much to the equation if she votes with the Liberals, and oftentimes 0.99

00:07:54.880 she actually does oppose them. And if the NDP are divided on an issue, it could be that the Liberals don't

00:08:00.880 just need three votes to pass something. They need four if Terrebonne goes to the Bloc Québécois, which could

00:08:06.160 make very contentious pieces of legislation much more difficult to pass. It's obvious that this

00:08:13.280 shouldn't be just redone. It's within one vote. There are dozens and dozens of votes that this

00:08:19.360 theoretically had affected, probably more like hundreds of votes that this had affected.

00:08:24.160 So why not rerun it? Oh, well, it could have gone either way. Well, that's why we rerun it. I don't

00:08:28.960 know that the block would have won if all the mail and ballots were counted correctly, but because we

00:08:34.080 don't know, that's why we rerun it. It's so foolish. Anyways, so that should be it for this video, guys.

00:08:40.880 I didn't want to make a big deal about this one. I will be back on another day to talk about stuff

00:08:45.920 in British Columbia, including the polling that's going on right now, the approval ratings of David

00:08:51.200 Eby and John Rustad, or really more so everyone's disapproval ratings, because every single leader

00:08:56.640 in the province has a negative approval rating right now, including my own leader, Dallas Brody. But hey,

00:09:01.920 she's new. So it's hard to get people really like you. And the only thing people have heard in the

00:09:06.160 media mostly is that you're a bad person. And even then she's still actually just middle of the pack

00:09:10.560 in terms of all four, five or six leaders that were talked about. I'll be back to talk about the

00:09:15.440 macro numbers, regionals, all that stuff. So, you know, stay tuned for that. And if you guys are already

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 28, 2025

Liberals ＂win＂ riding by 1 vote - Judge blocks new election with insane ruling!

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