In Nunavut, Ed Devries won 7.9% of the vote finishing in fourth place, ahead of the Green Party candidate.
Party leader Blair Longley received 332 votes (0.72%) finishing fifth out of six candidates in the Montreal riding of Hochelaga.
Tanguay received 338 votes (0.69%) finishing sixth out of nine candidates in the riding won by Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.
Kolaczysnki ran previously in the Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington riding (won by Scott Reid) during the 2004 general election, winning 479 votes (0.85%).
[2] He has a Fourth Class Stationary Engineering certificate from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
[3] He credits marijuana for helping him come to terms with post-traumatic stress syndrome, arguing that conventional treatments did not work for him (Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 1998).
His wife also suffers from multiple sclerosis, and Rathwell believes that marijuana use has kept her alive by causing the condition to subside.
He is a proponent of legal marijuana, regulated by the government with similar control and distribution mechanisms in place in order to stabilize the industry, removing it from the paradigm of criminality.
[6] He was awarded the Community Care and Access "Heroes in the Home Award",[7] receiving commendation from Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, as well as many other government officials and leaders for his role in arguing a human rights case involving summer access to camp programs for disabled children against the city of Woodstock, Ontario, which he subsequently won.
Bender ran unsuccessfully for city council in Woodstock, Ontario, in the November 2006 municipal elections.
[8] Bender also ran in the 2007 Ontario general elections as an Independent candidate, coming in fourth place ahead of the Family Coalition, a branch of the Christian Heritage Party.
Bender has organized and registered with Elections Canada, the Oxford Marijuana Party, effective February, 2007.
Aiden Wiechula was born on November 10, 1985, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived in Waterloo, Ontario; Saudi Arabia; and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, before moving to Peterborough to attend Trent University.
[13] During the 2006 campaign, he called for free community college courses and for university student tuition fees to be cut in half.
He denied that this would result in a lower quality of education, pointing to the example of low tuition fees in Quebec.
[14] Wiechula received 455 votes (0.72%) on election, finishing fifth against Conservative candidate Dean Del Mastro.