OTTAWA - An organizer behind a protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections told members of Parliament on Tuesday that his invitation to appear before a House committee is proof of the group's success.

Tomas Szuchewycz was a witness for the Longest Ballot Committee at a meeting of the procedure and government affairs committee, which is studying the way the longest ballot protest affected recent byelections and the April federal election.

Szuchewycz was listed as the official agent for nearly all of the 200 people who signed up to run against Pierre Poilievre in the summer byelection that returned the Conservative leader to the House of Commons.

Elections Canada had to create a modified write-in ballot for that vote in Battle River—Crowfoot.

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