Growing suspicions

Buried at the end of the CP's puff piece on Raymond Gravel and Elizabeth May is this interesting note about May's own plans before there was a race in London North Centre:

Before Fontana resigned, the Green Party leader said she had planned to run in Repentigny. Based on parliamentary tradition, May promised to run in the first available byelection.

"I didn't like the feeling of running in Repentigny with an opportunity created by a tragedy. It didn't feel good to me."

One has to assume that if May herself was originally planning to run in Repentigny, then the party itself would have to have been well aware of the riding's nomination process and deadlines. Which only lends credence to Marc-André Gadoury's suspicions as to whether the Greens' failure to process his nomination was intentional...and suggests that Gadoury's alternative choice is the right one for those who don't want to reward a party for stifling its own would-be candidates.