Le requérant faisait valoir que de nombreuses dispositions de la Loi électorale du Canada avantageaient les plus gros partis politiques et que, par conséquent, elle était discriminatoire envers les groupements politiques plus modestes.
This case dealt with a submission on the part of the Communist Party of Canada, an argument that many of the provisions of the Canada Elections Act in its current form benefited larger political parties and therefore, by virtue of the same method, discriminated against the smaller political groupings.