Three candidates in last fall's Wawa municipal election failed to file financial statements afterward.
The Municipality's posted statements for most of the candidates, but says Leah Isosaari, Robert Reeves, and Sue Smith - all of whom unsuccesfully ran to be councillors - were not compliant with that section of Ontario's Municipal Elections Act, which requires candidates to file the statements for their campaign by the last Friday in the March following the election.
Under the Act, those who fail to file statements would need to forfeit any office to which they were elected - not required in this case - and they're ineligible to be elected or appointed to any office to which the Act applies - such as mayor or Council - until the next regular election has taken place - that means they're unable to run in the 2026 municipal elections in any Ontario municipality, or any byelection before then - nor can they be appointed to fill a Council seat in Ontario - though that ban would be lifted after the 2026 municipal elections.