MONTREAL — The lawyer for a former Bloc Québécois MP who lost her riding by a single vote in the April federal election says allowing the result to stand would send a “disastrous message” to voters.

A three-day hearing began Monday in St-Jérôme, Que., where Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné is challenging the outcome of the April 28 election in the riding of Terrebonne, north of Montreal. The Bloc incumbent lost the riding by one vote to Tatiana Auguste, now a Liberal MP.

The legal action comes after a local woman, Emmanuelle Bossé, revealed that her special ballot was returned to her after the election because of an error in the address on the envelope provided by Elections Canada. She said she would have voted for the Bloc candidate, meaning the result would have been tied had her vote been c

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