National Post: When Everett Gottfried, an incumbent candidate in a northern Alberta municipal election, offered to give a free bag of dry moose meat to anyone who voted for him, the responses on Facebook were good-natured.
No one in Wabasca, southwest of Fort McMurray, really seemed to take him seriously. No one, that is, except for John Garry Gullion, who is Gottfried's second cousin. Gullion also ran in the election, but lost.
The way Gullion saw it, was that this was bribery which, under Alberta law, carries potential fines as high as $5,000, two years imprisonment, a forfeit of the elected office, and a two-election ban on running again.
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