I received the following email from Elections Canada. They had vital questions that they needed answers presumably for the sake of Canada’s national security and for the integrity of the whole system.
My name is (deleted) and I am the auditor with Elections Canada that is assigned to review your campaign return. I am writing to request your assistance in providing additional information needed to complete my review. Please find below the list of questions.
1. The campaign bank account had zero (0) balance as at August 17, 2011. Please confirm if the account was closed on that day.
2. Elections Canada mailed the $1,000 nomination deposit refund to you on November 7, 2011. Did you receive it? If so, what did you do with the cheque?
3. The external auditor billed the campaign $577.50. Elections Canada will provide audit subsidy of $250.00 directly to the auditor. Please advise if the candidate will be paying for the remaining balance of $327.50.
4. Please confirm that the candidate did not incur any incremental personal expenses as a result of this election.
5. Please confirm if a receipt was issued to the candidate for the $200.00 monetary contribution.
6. Please confirm that no signs were used for the election.
7. Did the candidate have a website during the election? If yes, what was the website address and who paid the expenses related to website development?
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.Sincerely, (deleted bureaucrat’s name to save them the shame of being known as a bureaucrat)

Here are my answers – in bold:
The campaign bank account had zero (0) balance as at August 17, 2011. Please confirm if the account was closed on that day.
Yes The account was closed.
Elections Canada mailed the $1,000 nomination deposit refund to you on November 7, 2011. Did you receive it? If so, what did you do with the cheque?
Obviously, I cashed it. Why do you have to ask me this? Can’t you look at your own bank account and see the cancelled cheque? Do you need to know what I spent the refunded $1000 on too?
The external auditor billed the campaign $577.50. Elections Canada will provide audit subsidy of $250.00 directly to the auditor. Please advise if the candidate will be paying for the remaining balance of $327.50.
I am on the hook for that extra money because of the incompetence of elections Canada. YOU approved my first auditor then changed your minds after the fact.
Please confirm that the candidate did not incur any incremental personal expenses as a result of this election.
I ran my campaign, such as it was, without accepting any bribes. I suppose you can’t understand that. Should we count the $327.50 from your above question as a personal expense?
Please confirm if a receipt was issued to the candidate for the $200.00 monetary contribution.
No receipts at all were issues because no dirty bribe money was accepted.
Please confirm that no signs were used for the election. No signs were used.
Did the candidate have a website during the election? If yes, what was the website address and who paid the expenses related to website development?
Yes. http://xtax.ca I listed the domain and hosting expense on my campaign return. There were no other expenses because I did my own website development. Setting up a wordpress blog isn’t all that difficult.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I have many questions but I doubt I’ll ever get any true answers from the government.
Russ Toews
PS. My condolences that you work for a criminal organization.
PPS – I want to add this to my answer to your question # 3
The external auditor billed the campaign $577.50. Elections Canada will provide audit subsidy of $250.00 directly to the auditor. Please advise if the candidate will be paying for the remaining balance of $327.50.
Your Elections Canada returning officer approved my appointment of an auditor, even though your Elections Canada returning officer knew that my auditor was also the official agent for a party candidate. That auditor was willing to perform the required audit for only the $250 subsidy. After the campaign, my auditor was excluded from being my auditor. So why was he not excluded from being the local party’s official agent instead or also? The obvious answer is that the elections act was enacted by a party government that wanted to ensure that party candidates always win-and that bias shows in every facet of the disgusting elections act and the application.
The true fact is that the political party system is expressly designed to facilitate corruption. Let’s boil the party system down to the root premise – The wealthy pay money to a party politician’s campaign so that when elected, the party politician can enact legislation that unfairly favors the wealthy contributors. Call it whatever you like, but I name it for what it actually is – corruption.
The nation and humanity as a whole would be much better off as an actual democracy than the party dictatorships that falsely term themselves as democracies.
By the way, the $327.50 your unfairly applying a paltry rule cost me amounted to more than one and a half times the dollar value of what my entire campaign cost. How does that look for you in perspective?
Like I said in the post title – Elections Really are a Farce!