{"id":3319,"date":"2012-05-18T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2012-05-29T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:35:37","slug":"rematch-in-etobicoke-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Rematch in Etobicoke Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the close votes over the years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/story\/2012\/05\/18\/pol-court-throws-out-etobicoke-centre-election-wrzesnewskyj.html\">this<\/a> is a first:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Election result in Toronto riding thrown out by judge<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP Ted Opitz&#8217;s 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre was declared null and void today in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj.<\/p>\n<p>Opitz won the May 2011 election by 26 votes, but Wrzesnewskyj challenged the results over voting irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Thomas Lederer&#8217;s decision Friday in Toronto, if appealed, would be immediately heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Wrzesnewskyj&#8217;s lawyer argued up to 181 ballots were in dispute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can safely assume this will be appealed, but if the ruling is upheld, Harper would have 6 months to call a by-election &#8211; and you can make the case he&#8217;d be morally obliged to call it ASAP, given the circumstances. While the stakes won&#8217;t be as high as in <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.ca\/2012\/05\/mcguintys-majority-move.html\">Kitchener-Waterloo<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/parlinfo\/Files\/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=6cef02a4-e5dd-44f0-9355-faf30afbb856&amp;Language=E&amp;Section=ALL\">Wrzesnewskyj<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedopitz.ca\/\">Opitz<\/a> rematch would still be must-see TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the close votes over the years, this is a first: Election result in Toronto riding thrown out by judge Conservative MP Ted Opitz&#8217;s 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre was declared null and void today in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Opitz won the May 2011 election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[202,983],"tags":[986,987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}