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OTTAWA — The Green Party paid supporters in Quebec to collect signatures of voters who knew little or nothing about the candidates they were helping to nominate.

Many of the Green candidates in Quebec are party workers or supporters who come from British Columbia and were placed on the ballot to allow the party to claim it was fielding close to a full slate across the country, with representation in all but two of the 338 ridings.

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Green Leader Elizabeth May’s daughter, Cate Burton, is among a group of about a dozen candidates running in Quebec who have no apparent connection to the ridings they hope to represent.

Every candidate in the federal election must submit nomination papers with a list of 100 signatures from eligible voters in his or her riding.

A Citizen investigation has found that some people who signed these forms for Greens in the province knew virtually nothing about the candidates they were nominating, and many couldn’t even name them when asked about their signatures.