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What happens when one vote decides an election and that vote
never makes it to the ballot box?
Gavin and Stephen dive deep into a razor-thin electoral result
in Terrebonne, Quebec, where a federal seat was won by a single
vote.
But here's the twist: a mail-in ballot that could have tied
the race was rejected due to a postal code error, an error made not
by the voter, but by an Elections Canada official.
Drawing on their own high-profile experience in the Opitz v.
Wrzesnewskyj Supreme Court case, Gavin and Stephen debate voter
disenfranchisement, electoral integrity, and whether democracy
should aim for perfection or just "good enough."
They explore the fragile balance between procedural error and
intentional fraud, the role of Canada Post in protecting electoral
rights, and whether a single mistake should or should not
invalidate an entire election.
