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Mr. Saganash, the tallyman who has long fought against logging, belongs to the Crees centered in Waswanipi, a town eight hours north by car from Montreal.

He started as a tallyman, making $5.95 a day for tallying the lumber output from the loggers.

He worked two summers in Bristol Bay as a tallyman and storekeeper at Clark’s Point cannery, and also as tugboat operator.

For this you can thank the tallymen, a ragged band of political zealots from every party who specialize in watching ballots as they're counted.

In the 43 multi-member constituencies across the country, activists known as "tallymen" and women stand on the other side of the tables where officials sort and count ballot papers.