November 2023, I publicly announced I was seeking the Prime Ministership of Canada as an independent candidate in the then upcoming October 2025 federal election, and I began to campaign. I announced my political platform, and actively campaigned everyday, expecting the media in Canada to pick up the story as the campaign grew, and present it to Canadians so they would have the opportunity to decide for themselves if my platform was a vision they wanted for their future. Canada currently operates using the Westminster system, inherited from the UK, and electing an independent candidate for Prime Minister would be down the road of electoral reform: a debate Canadians would have had almost a full 2-years to decide over, with my early announcement.
Despite all my efforts, which included tagging them in social media posts, they ignored the campaign. However, I continued on.
The following summer ~ 2024, all major Canadian and Indigenous media outlets were contacted announcing my candidacy. Not one responded. I continued my campaign despite their non-response.
That fall, September ~ 2024, I contacted Elections Canada. I advised them that I had publicly announced I was seeking the upcoming Prime Ministership in the 2025 federal election as an independent candidate, and with the possibility of an early election being called, I was conscious to meet the 21-day deadline of having my notice in to them. I advised them that I had read the eligibility requirements for Prime Minister, and that I had met those requirements, and asked what steps I needed to take to ensure my candidacy was recognized since I was not affiliated with a political party. They responded, and told me that a political party chooses the Prime Minister, and provided me with links on how to register to join a political party.
I then contacted the Governor General of Canada 3 times via email, explaining the campaign and asked for her to meet with me. No one responded, and an early election was quickly called by the new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who had recently replaced Justin Trudeau after he stepped down.
Right after Mark Carney called an early election, my support team called the Governor General’s office and spoke to a staff member. They explained the urgency of the matter to them, and the importance of my now lengthly campaign, and they transferred the call immediately to the Governor General’s personal assistant, where multiple messages were left. No one responded.
Since the new election day was now fast approaching, I attempted to meet with the Governor General in-person, in Ottawa. The Commissioners working that day advised that a meeting was only possible if it was arranged in advance. The situation and urgency of the matter was explained to them, including the multiple attempts already made to contact and meet with the Governor General. However, they explained that were not able to assist. The Ottawa police were nearby for a local event, and I spoke with them regarding the matter. They said they were not able to assist either, and to try to keep contacting her.
Due to the Liberal government’s ignorance over the matter, and the now speedy upcoming new election date, which had been moved up from the original date of October 2025 to May 2025, I had no option left but to take it to the Supreme Court of Canada.
April 2025, I contacted the Supreme Court of Canada and explained the situation. They advised me that I needed to take the matter to the Federal Court first, and then bring it to the Supreme Court of Canada if there was no appropriate resolve at that level.
The early May federal election came and went. Mark Carney and the Liberals won again.
June 2025 I filed a claim against the Crown toward electoral reform with the Federal Court of Canada. The Judge ruled that the Federal Court had no jurisdiction over electoral reform in Canada. I appealed his decision with the Federal Court of Appeal, and they agreed. This took 6-months.
At the beginning of January 2026, I filed a claim against the Crown toward electoral reform with the Supreme Court of Canada. The case has been with them since, and we are waiting to hear back.
The law in Canada prohibits the government-of-the-day from manipulating the conditions of democratic deliberation and debate. It restricts them from shaping and distorting electoral conditions and outcomes for their own political party advantage.
For the last 2.5-years and counting, visible to Canadians and the international community who have watched this unfold, the Liberal government has violated these legally binding conditions. Their ongoing actions are now the evidence before the Supreme Court of Canada, since January 2026.
The law in Canada protects not only the freedom of speech, but the integrity of the environment in which political discourse occurs. A Liberal government that distorts, curates, and suppresses political information: illegally interferes with the rights of Canadians to receive and evaluate alternative political voices and leadership options. Democratic rights and the rule of law protect Canadians from the Liberal government’s self-interests, not the Liberal government from accountability. Democratic rights and the rule of law operate as constraints on the Liberal government, not shields for it. Its purpose is to ensure that Canadians, not the Liberal government, determine electoral outcomes. Liberal government interference with these legal boundaries undermine the legitimacy of electoral outcomes, and the democratic process itself.
Canadian law prohibits the Liberal government from manipulating the information and structural conditions under which Canadians form political judgment and choose their government. Democratic rights protect Canadians from the Liberal government, not the Liberal government from accountability. When the Liberal government interferes with the terrain of public political deliberation and debate, it exceeds lawful authority and the legitimacy of the electoral outcome is called into question. Their ongoing public behaviour, watched by Canadians, international citizens and media outlets, for the last 2.5-years and counting ~ has been before the Supreme Court of Canada since January 2026.
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