Reusch urged citizens to make sure their voices are heard in their municipality. Staying informed by looking at the party's platforms, encouraging others to register and cast their vote, and talking to friends about pressing issues can all make a difference, she said. In Montreal, polls are open Saturday and Sunday. For the rest of the province, voting day is Sunday.
In Montreal, you can make sure are registered and use the city's tool to find the nearest polling station. More on the platforms and promises of each party, including information about how to vote, can be found in other key election stories:.
Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Election operations. Voting Find your electoral division Entry on the list of electors Advance poll Identification of the voter How to vote?
Voting at the office of the returning officer Voting in educational establishments Vote on polling day Identification of the voter Four hours to vote, it's your right! Employers cannot penalize an employee or make a deduction on their pay for taking time off to vote , as required by the Canada Elections Act. An employee must be paid what he or she would have earned during the time allowed off for voting.
It is an offence for employers to fail to provide time off for voting as required under the Canada Elections Act. It is also an offence for an employer to reduce an employee's pay when the employee has been provided time off to vote in accordance with the Act.
FAQs — Time off to vote. If there is no leader of the party in the House, the Member designated by the leader of the party loses the right to sit and to vote, in accordance with the first paragraph. Sections to and , adapted as required, apply to this division. The leader, the interim leader or the designated person shall also communicate in writing to the Chief Electoral Officer the given name, surname and domiciliary address of every financial representative of a leadership candidate and the name of the leadership candidate on whose behalf the financial representative is acting.
A document containing the written consent of each financial representative must also be filed. In no case may the financial representative or a deputy financial representative pay a leadership campaign expense of their candidate otherwise than out of that account.
Loans contracted under the third paragraph of section In no case may the official representative or a deputy official representative of the party pay a leadership campaign expense otherwise than out of that account.
However, an elector may make a contribution to the Chief Electoral Officer by means of a credit card. The Chief Electoral Officer shall issue a receipt to a contributor annually for any contributions paid in accordance with section All cheques or orders of payment must be made to the order of the candidate.
Any such loan must first be authorized in writing by the candidate concerned. The authorization must include the information listed in section The official representative of the party may contract a loan, in accordance with section , to fund the leadership campaign expenses of the party.
Sections to , to , to , , , , and apply, with the necessary modifications. If the financial representative has died or resigned, or is unable to act, and has not been replaced, the claim must be presented within the same time to the candidate.
Failure to present the claim within the time prescribed in the first paragraph entails prescription of the claim. If the official representative has died or resigned, or is unable to act, and has not been replaced, the claim must be presented within the same time to the party leader or interim leader.
Failure to present a claim within the time prescribed in the first paragraph entails prescription of the claim. If there remains an unpaid balance on a claim or loan at the expiry of that period, the Chief Electoral Officer may authorize the financial representative to continue collecting contributions during an additional period of 12 months for the purpose of paying that balance. That month period may be renewed once, with the authorization of the Chief Electoral Officer.
Contributions collected under the first and second paragraphs are deemed to have been collected for the purposes of the leadership campaign of the candidate concerned. Any unpaid balance on a claim or loan at the expiry of the month period following the leadership vote is deemed to be a contribution for which the candidate alone is accountable. Sections and do not apply to such a contribution. All relevant vouchers and, if applicable, the written authorizations referred to in the second paragraph of section The declaration shall state, in particular, that the candidate has been informed of the rules regarding financing and campaign expenses, that he has reminded the persons authorized to solicit contributions and those authorized to incur or authorize expenses of their obligation to comply with those rules, that he has been informed of the solicitation practices and considers that they comply with the law, that he has read the return and that he has obtained any clarification he wished to receive regarding its content.
The return shall also be accompanied by a declaration by the financial representative in the form prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer. On receipt of a complementary return, the official representative must forward it to the Chief Electoral Officer.
The official representative shall file with the return all the returns received from the financial representatives of leadership candidates under section The declaration shall state, in particular, that the person has been informed of the rules regarding campaign expenses, that he has reminded the persons authorized to incur or authorize expenses of their obligation to comply with those rules, that he has read the return and that he has obtained any clarification he wished to receive regarding its content.
The return shall also be accompanied by a declaration by the official representative in the form prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer. After the date prescribed for filing the return, the financial representative or the official representative concerned must obtain leave from the Chief Electoral Officer to correct the error on establishing that it was made through inadvertence.
The Chief Electoral Officer shall send a copy of the order to the returning officer of each electoral division in which an election must be held, and the returning officer shall comply with it. For the purposes of the second paragraph of section 6 of the Act respecting the National Assembly chapter A Nothing in this section affects the power of the Lieutenant-Governor to dissolve the National Assembly before the end of a Legislature.
However, if the application of the third paragraph of section 6 of the Act respecting the National Assembly would extend the term of the Legislature beyond five years, the Chief Electoral Officer shall not make the publication provided for in the first paragraph.
The Chief Electoral Officer shall also make any advertisement necessary and provide all relevant information in order to inform the public of that date. However, the Government is not required to make such an order if the vacancy occurs six months or less before the date of the next general election fixed under the second paragraph of section , or after that date if the general election is to be held on the date fixed under the first paragraph of section Once the order instituting the holding of a general election is issued, any order instituting the holding of a by-election ceases to have effect.
If polling day falls on a holiday, the poll shall be held on the following day. These offices must be open every day, from a. Monday to Friday and from a. Saturday and Sunday. They must be handicapped-accessible and laid out in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer.
The main office must be in operation as soon as the order instituting the election is issued. The branch offices must be in operation at the time determined by the Chief Electoral Officer but not later than the 21st day before polling day.
The same rule applies to a person in authority at a vocational training centre or a post-secondary educational institution referred to in section Election officers are chosen from among the qualified electors.
Apart from the returning officer, who shall make an oath in accordance with section , the election officers shall make the oath provided in Schedule II before the returning officer or the person designated by him. Election officers shall comply with the directives of the Chief Electoral Officer.
The Chief Electoral Officer may, in an election period, increase the amounts fixed by the tariff. The additional expenses resulting from the increase shall not exceed the amount established by government regulation. In the case of an officer in charge of the list of electors, the prohibition ceases to apply on the close of the poll.
An enumerator who is dismissed is not entitled to any remuneration. Sections to apply to such an employer. The Chief Electoral Officer shall also transmit to each returning officer the information relating to the electors in whose respect he is unable to update the entries on the permanent list of electors, so that the information may be verified by the competent board of revisors. The lists are sent in electronic form; candidates may obtain a paper copy on request. The Chief Electoral Officer shall transmit the lists in computer form to the authorized parties represented in the National Assembly, to any other authorized party having so requested and to any authorized independent Member.
The list shall be transmitted to the parties and persons referred to in section , in the manner prescribed therein. Not later than the twenty-eighth day before polling day, the returning officer determines the places where boards of revisors will sit.
A mobile board of revisors sits in a residential facility maintained by an institution that operates a residential and long-term care centre governed by the Act respecting health services and social services chapter S A residential facility must meet the criteria set by the Chief Electoral Officer and the institution or the operator of the residence must allow a mobile board of revisors to be set up free of charge in the residential facility.
The returning officer informs the Chief Electoral Officer, the authorized parties represented in the National Assembly, any other party having so requested, any authorized independent Member and each candidate of the places where a board of revisors will sit.
The chair is appointed in accordance with section The third revisor is appointed on the recommendation of the authorized party that ranked second in the last election. Recommendations must be received by the returning officer not later than the twenty-seventh day before polling day. The returning officer may refuse a recommendation on reasonable grounds. In that case, the returning officer requests a new recommendation. If no recommendation has been received or if the person recommended is not a qualified elector, the returning officer makes the appointment without further formality.
The designated person must send a notice of approval or disapproval to the returning officer not later than the twenty-seventh day before polling day. In the case of disapproval, the Chief Electoral Officer appoints the revisor who is to act as chair of the board of revisors. If no notice has been received, the returning officer makes the appointment without further formality. The returning officer appoints a sufficient number of teams of two revising officers.
Sections to apply to the appointment of revising officers, with the necessary modifications. The returning officer appoints the necessary additional personnel needed by the boards of revisors to perform their functions. The returning officer also submits to a mobile board of revisors the cases of electors who are registered on the list of electors of a place described in section or a facility maintained by an institution that operates a hospital centre or a rehabilitation centre governed by the Act respecting health services and social services chapter S The board of revisors has, in respect of such cases, the same powers and duties as for the processing of any request submitted by an elector.
If the revision follows an enumeration, the returning officer also sends the revisors the reports made by the enumerators under section Requests must be filed with or received by a board of revisors not later than the 14th day before polling day. A mobile board of revisors may visit the room or apartment of an elector who is unable to move about and who is domiciled in a residential facility where the board sits, provided a request to that effect was addressed to the returning officer not later than the 14th day before polling day.
A mobile board of revisors may also, under the same conditions as those set out in the second paragraph, visit an elector who is domiciled or lodged in a place referred to in section Despite the second paragraph, a mobile board of revisors present in a facility referred to in the second or third paragraph may, on request, visit the room or apartment of an elector who is unable to move about. Questions submitted to the board of revisors are decided by a majority vote. In the case of a tie vote, the chair, or in the absence of the chair, the vice-chair has a casting vote.
The notice must inform electors that any request regarding the revision of the list of electors must be submitted to a board of revisors in the electoral division of their domicile, set out when and where the boards of revisors will sit and explain the revision process.
Information regarding mobile boards of revisors is provided to the electors concerned by the returning officer. The elector may request that the registration be effective for the purposes of the upcoming poll only. If the request is granted, the elector is registered on the list of electors for the polling subdivision in which the elector is domiciled after being removed from the other list. The person declares that, to his or her knowledge, the other person is not entitled to be registered on the list of electors for that polling subdivision, for the reasons put forward to the board.
A board of revisors may require from a person submitting a request any evidence needed to make a decision. Requests for registration must be submitted with the document or documents determined by regulation of the Chief Electoral Officer in support of the information contained in the request. The second paragraph does not apply to a request submitted to a special board of revisors. A board of revisors also examines all requests submitted to it under this Act.
The Chief Electoral Officer informs the electors concerned and the authorized parties of any corrections made under the first paragraph. A certificate of notification is drawn up by the revising officers on the prescribed form and returned to the board of revisors. The notice must be of at least one clear day and be notified in the manner determined by the Chief Electoral Officer at the address appearing on the list of electors or at any other place the board of revisors has reason to believe the person may be reached.
If the elector is already registered, the board of revisors first removes the elector, in which case it is not necessary to send the notice referred to in section After a board of revisors has completed its work, its powers under this section may be exercised by a special board of revisors.
At the latest before the opening of the advance polling stations, the returning officer sends each candidate a list of the electors removed from the list of electors by a special board of revisors. The Chief Electoral Officer sends the lists in electronic form to the authorized parties represented in the National Assembly and to any other authorized party having so requested. Requests must be filed with or received by a special board of revisors not later than p.
The list is sent in electronic form; candidates may obtain a paper copy on request. The Chief Electoral Officer sends the list in electronic form to the authorized parties represented in the National Assembly and to any other authorized party having so requested. However, no team of revising officers is assigned to the board of revisors. However, requests for removal must be submitted by electors not later than the 14th day before polling day.
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