Byelection date set for PBCN
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A little more than a year after its last election, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has secured a date for a new byelection.
Band members will elect their urban councilor on Aug. 15 and the candidates remain Warren McCallum, Clarisse Lecoq and Darryl McCallum.
The byelection was initially ordered by the election tribunal after issues were raised during last year’s election. The election tribunal had found there were “irregularities” in the conduct by the returning officer which they claimed could have impacted the outcome of the election. Those irregularities included failure by the electoral officer to properly advertise the election.
The initial byelection had been scheduled to take place the following July, but those plans were shelved when Warren McCallum, who had been declared the winner in the 2018 election, had attempted to appeal the tribunal’s ruling. A federal court judge dismissed the appeal last month.
