Calgary Centre Candidates for the by-election - one of the expected candidates did not have enough signatures

Candidates in your electoral district

Candidate name	Status	Name of party	Office phone number	Name of official agent	Name of auditor
Joan Crockatt	Confirmed	Conservative Party of Canada	(403) 768-0118	Michael David Kahn	Gary Rozon
Antoni Grochowski	Confirmed	Independent	(403) 277-2222	Adam Nadelski	Fred Erlendson
Harvey Locke	Confirmed	Liberal Party of Canada	(403) 262-5886	Amanda Lori Kriaski	Nelson Halpern
Dan Meades	Confirmed	New Democratic Party	(403) 460-0952	Marc Edward Power	Stacey-Ann Campbell
Tony Prashad	Confirmed	Libertarian Party of Canada	(587) 227-0488	Nicholas Chan	Stacy Campbell
Chris Turner	Confirmed	Green Party of Canada	(403) 294-9121	James Arthur Herington	Stacey Campbell

Progressive Canadian Candidate Ben Christensen did not manage to get 100 signatures - here is what he had to say on twitter about it:

5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

Some will ask what is next? Mayors office...I'm coming!

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5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

I am communicating with elections canada to see if this decision will be overturned since my deposit has not yet been refunded update soon!

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5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

According to his review I was 7 signatures short and this took over 24 hours to figure out, the delay seems intentional, and pre-meditated

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5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

If you'd like to voice your concerns call elections canada or our local returning officer Kevin Allen who prematurely issued a refusal

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5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

This is a direct result of improper process by the returning officer and EC has refused to investigate this inconsistency in his documents

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5hBen Christensen ‏@BeHeardCalgary

I regret to Inform calgarians that I will not be on the ballot, those who were rooting for me please call EC to voice your outrage.

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What this highlights to me is that it is good to always get a lot more signatures than you need and then submit your forms early enough that you have time to correct them before nominations close.

Getting 100 signatures is not a hard task - the Liberatian managed it as did independent Antoni Grochowski.