Two guilty verdicts are handed down and a guilty plea is entered in Montréal

Québec, March 1st, 2011 – Jacques Drouin, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec, wishes to inform the public that two guilty verdicts were handed down and that a guilty plea was entered in the Montréal region in cases involving violations of the Election Act.

In Montréal, Nathalie Larocque-Talbot, in her capacity as official agent of Nathalie Rivard, candidate for the Québec Liberal Party in the December 8, 2008 election in the electoral division of Rosemont, committed two violations of the Election Act concerning the election expenses of the candidate. First, Ms. Larocque-Talbot failed to file supporting documents for election expenses appearing in the return of election expenses as stipulated in the second paragraph of section 432 of the Election Act. Moreover, she made a false declaration to the effect that the expenses entered in the return of election expenses had been paid in accordance with the requirements of the Act.