{"id":579,"date":"2014-10-29T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/29\/lbpsb-did-not-breach-election-rules\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:50","slug":"lbpsb-did-not-breach-election-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/29\/lbpsb-did-not-breach-election-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"LBPSB did not breach election rules: Elections Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank and Kevin Woodhouse<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Quebec\u2019s election authority confirmed that, after verifying the news conference hastily convened last week at Lester B. School Board Headquarters (LBPSB) by outgoing chair Suanne Stein Day who is running for re-election, there had been no breach of Quebec election rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nStein Day sent a midnight invitation to selected reporters to attend a 9 a.m., Oct. 23, news conference at LBPSB headquarters. Stein Day asserted that the news event \u201cnon-partisan\u201d.<\/div>\n
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\nHowever, only Stein Day\u2019s name and that of her supporter, incumbent commissioner and outgoing commissioner Craig Berger, appeared in the news release, which opposition candidates did not get to see prior to the news conference.<\/div>\n
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The news release described Stein Day only as LBPSB chairperson, while listing Berger\u2014who has repeatedly spurned The Suburban\u2019s<\/i> interview requests since early this year\u2014as a candidate for re-election.<\/div>\n
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\nWhen The Suburban<\/i> arrived 20 minutes prior to the news conference, LBPSB staff were unaware that a news conference had been scheduled and had to hastily ensure the availability of the LBPSB board room, which had been booked for another meeting at that time. Stein Day employed LBPSB staff Alycia Ambrosiak and Jim Hendry to organize and monitor the unexpected meeting.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe purpose of the news conference was to promote or protect the right to vote of anglophone electors and to encourage the participation of anglophone electors at the school board elections, Elections Quebec Spokesman Denis Dion told The Suburban.<\/i> \u201cIt was not to promote a particular candidacy. Therefore, they are not electoral expenses.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nThe ruling seems to go against what other candidates have faced during the election because they had been ordered at the outset of the election not to campaign on LBPSB property. They said that they did not expect that they could breeze in to LBPSB headquarters and summarily demand that staff organize an impromptu news conference there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nDion also stated that the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) did not interfere with the electoral process Oct. 16, by paying a lawyer to force one of Stein Day\u2019s opponents, candidate Chris Eustace, to take down a campaign video critical of Stein Day that had been making waves. LBPSB made the move three days after Berger had published a diatribe against the video on Facebook.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe law says that \u2018During an election, no person other than an authorized candidate may incur or authorize electoral expenses,\u2019\u201d Dion said in an interview. \u201cThe cost of any goods or services during an election period to promote…directly or indirectly the election of a candidate…is an election expense.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Regarding the removal of the video, the spokesman for Elections Quebec said \u201cit is possible that this video contained material belonging to the Lester B. Pearson School Board. And it is possible that this material was used without the school board\u2019s authorization.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cBut there\u2019s no rule in the Act respecting school elections relating to this issue,\u201d said Dion.<\/div>\n
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Dion added that Elections Quebec is mindful that school boards continue to operate during elections, and that the incumbents continue to administer them. Whether wrongdoing took place boils down to the answer to a single question.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cWas it an administrative gesture or was it a political gesture? This is analyzed on a case-by-case basis,\u201d Dion explained, \u201cand we need to have enough information to be able to characterize the intervention.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\nThe school board elections take place Sunday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

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\nLBPSB election candidates complained that they were excluded from an impromptu news conference convened by <\/b>Suanne Stein Day and Craig Berger at one minute after midnight, Oct. 23. L<\/b>ess than <\/b>nine hours later, o<\/b>nly three other candidates arrived <\/b>at LBPSB HQ <\/b>in time for the <\/b>so-called “non-partisan” news event<\/b>: Chris Eustace (right), Marc Lucke (left) and Josh Arless (not in photo). Other candidates also complained that they had no input into the content of the news release seen on the table.<\/b><\/div>\n
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