OTTAWA – As time runs out for the prime minister to announce a date for a federal byelection in suburban Montreal, an ongoing — and record-breaking — election protest is ready to once again elongate the contest’s ballot as a protest against the government’s broken promise on electoral reform.

Under Canadian election law, the prime minister must announce the date to fill the vacant seat in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun between Feb. 12 and July 30. With that deadline just two weeks away, members of the Longest Ballot Committee — an activist group protesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking his 2015 election promise to enact electoral reform — are eager to once again snarl election night by stacking the ballot with a ridiculously long list of candidates.