As election season draws to an end, damage to the Christian Heritage Party election signs are only increasing says the leader of the party, Gordon Truscott.
“I’m up to 42 signs now in the past few days that have been damaged,” says Truscott.
“And there are lots of signs around Guelph that I haven’t gotten to.”
He says the increase in damage started five days ago when he saw broken sign stands, uprooted signs out of the ground, absent signs and vandalized ones resulting in Truscott believing that he definitely suffered more damage to his election signs than any other candidate in Guelph.
“More than twice as much than all the other candidates,” claims Truscott.
He says when he saw that all five of his signs on the intersection of Speedvale Avenue West and Imperial Road North were down, he decided to begin counting them.
“I don’t know if people are just frustrated with the electoral process or having someone Christian do politics which is rather strange because Lloyd Longfield is a Christian in politics.”
Truscott says because no one has been caught damaging the signs, he hasn’t been able to get to the bottom of the issue and ask why this is happening.
Apart from the loss to his signs, he says it has significantly taken away time from his campaign.
“On Tuesday night, after the all-candidates meeting, I went out and I was up to 4 a.m. in the morning after my signs,” said Truscott.
"It’s rather sickening because what are people thinking? First of all, its a crime. Secondly, it’s my property. I paid for it."
He says apart from not being invited to many all-candidates debates, the damage of his signs continues to confirm that this has been an unfair election.
“I haven’t even had a chance to explain that we are a party or service. We don’t seek to rule. We seek to be servants of people so that we would put together some legislation and put it out to the public and say, is that what you want?” says Truscott.
