Patrick O’Hara might be one of the most motivated federal candidates in Canada.
“Either way it’s going to go this year,” the Bloc Québécois candidate told CBC Radio’s The House, “I know what to expect, right?”
Last election night, in September 2021, O’Hara believed he’d won his seat by 286 votes. But everything changed two weeks later, when a recount concluded he had lost — by just 12 ballots.
“It was probably the worst experience I’ve had in my life.”
O’Hara is back running in the renamed and redrawn riding of Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville, a suburban-rural corner of southwestern Quebec that stretches from the South Shore of Montreal down to the U.S. border.
The agriculturally rich region — often referred to as the “garden” of Quebec — is surrounded by Bloc incumbents and likely would have flipped to the Bloc in 2021 if the new boundaries had been in place.
Last federal election, Bloc Québécois candidate Patrick O’Hara lost the …