Bloc Québécois to contest judicial recount in Terrebonne riding: sources

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· Posted: May 15, 2025 9:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Bloc Québécois is expected to motorboat a ineligible situation against the judicial recount that saw the enactment suffer the national riding of Terrebonne by 1 ballot aft a mailing mistake led to a peculiar ballot not being counted.

Radio-Canada sources accidental Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet volition denote the party's intentions this morning. He volition beryllium holding a quality league astatine 11 a.m. successful Ottawa with Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné — the party's campaigner successful the riding — and Bloc MP Christine Normandin.

The announcement comes a time aft Elections Canada declared that the effect of a recount successful Terrebonne is final, contempt a misprint that led to 1 peculiar ballot being returned to sender.

Elections Canada investigated aft Terrebonne resident Emmanuelle Bossé came guardant with an envelope that contained a ballot for the Bloc Québécois which had been returned to sender. 

Results connected predetermination nighttime indicated that Liberal MP Tatiana Auguste won the riding by 35 votes. After a modular validation process, the spot flipped temporarily to Sinclair-Desgagné by 44 votes. A judicial recount past recovered the Liberals had won, but lone by a azygous vote. 

The autarkic bureau said that this is the lone lawsuit they cognize of successful the caller predetermination of an envelope containing a marked ballot being returned to a elector due to the fact that of an incorrect address.