Liberal candidate Madeleine Meilleur's signs have been applied a little too liberally in the electoral district of Ottawa-Vanier, say some disgruntled residents.
Philip Cordier found one in front of his house when he came home from work Monday afternoon.
"I didn't like them doing it without asking," Cordier said Thursday. "They're associating me with a certain group that I'm not a member of."
He called Meilleur's campaign office and they agreed to collect the offending sign, but he said he's upset that the campaign volunteers never apologized.
Now he's put a cardboard sign on his lawn encouraging passers-by to vote against Meilleur.
Don Wight, who lives two houses down from Cordier, said he too found a Meilleur sign on his lawn one morning.
"I thought, 'well, it's the next-door neighbour's' because it's on their side of property. And I didn't think any more of it," he said.
Wight took the sign down himself after he learned that, in fact, his neighbour thought it was his.
Meilleur's campaign manager Pierre DeBlois confirmed Thursday that at least five of his candidate's signs have been placed on lawns without permission. The office is working to correct that, he said.
"Now we're going to be calling all these people to say that we're very sorry," a spokesman for Meilleur's campaign said, adding that volunteers have to keep track of 15,000 to 20,000 addresses where signs have been requested during the race.
"Mistakes do happen, and this was just a very simple mistake."
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