Okay.
My question was whether the Green Party is getting credit for the votes that were cast for the candidate that did not exist.
Also, in Etobicoke Centre a candidate did a full riding drop of brochures against the incumbent on the Saturday evening of the long weekend just before the election. An Ontario Superior Court justice described the brochures as containing clearly defamatory material. The judge went on to state that “If the brochure is further distributed, the damage that could be inflicted on the plaintiff's reputation would be irreparable.” Consequently, the judge granted an unprecedented injunction against the candidate and his campaign from further distributing these materials.
I don't know if you have been made aware of this, but the story continues. The candidate appealed. The judge laid down a second injunction. The candidate deliberately distributed materials that were factually incorrect, in this case providing widely incorrect statements dealing with a member of Parliament's attendance record on committees.
Is Elections Canada investigating this matter, and what will be the consequences to the candidate for having put together factually false and defamatory materials at a strategically critical point in the campaign? Obviously that particular candidate dropped that on the Saturday, knowing very well that nobody would have time to reply to, answer, or deny what was in the pamphlet. I can show you in the pamphlet where it talks about his attendance record on committees. It goes as far as naming a committee that does not exist in the House of Commons.
I'm wondering if Elections Canada is aware of this, and what is going to be done about it.