Candidates in a nomination battle aren’t, yet, candidates in an election. With this conclusion of Justice Howard Borenstein, the Crown’s case in the Liberal Elections Act trial began to crumble without the defence even firing a shot.
By legal accounts, Judge Borenstein is on solid ground in ruling a candidate cannot be bribed if he was never a candidate in the first place. Yet, Borenstein’s ruling in this very first case to scrutinize the bribery provisions of the Elections Act leaves other nagging questions left unanswered.
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