You have give credit to Freiheit for throwing his hat into the ring and running for office in the last federal election last September.

His expectations were really out of whack though.

He mentioned on stream right before the writ that he was predicting that Max Bernier and the PPC would secure about 12 federal seats despite only gaining less than 2% of the popular vote 3 years earlier in 2019 (and ultimately winning no seats despite tripling their support above 5% in 2021).

This prediction suggested that David had no idea how the math works out in a First Past the Post system nor the margins needed to actually win a single seat (no PPC candidates topped 20% in 2021. Not even their leader in his home riding of Beauce, Quebec IIRC, a seat he previously held under Harper as a Cabinet minister).

Frei also ran in his home riding in Montreal that was a Liberal stronghold whose incumbent, Marc Garneau, is a famous astronaut and previously well known Liberal minister (there's rumours Garneau hates Trudeau and has subsequently been stripped of his titles and relegated to the backbenches because of it).

I know Viva was disappointed and likely embarrassed with his showing in the September federal election running for the PPC under Bernier where he only scraped together a few thousand votes while the Trudeau toadie Garneau won with 50-60% IIRC.

But running in an impossible district and losing still seems like a weak basis to justify cutting and running afterwards.