First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70 Elizabeth II, 2021 |
SENATE OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age)
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FIRST READING, November 24, 2021
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THE HONOURABLE SENATOR McPhedran |
This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum to lower the voting age from 18 years to 16.
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70 Elizabeth II, 2021 |
SENATE OF CANADA |
BILL S-201 |
An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum (voting age) |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
2000, c. 9
future elector means a Canadian citizen who is 14 or Insertion start 15 Insertion end years of age. (futur électeur)
3 Every person who is a Canadian citizen and is Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day is qualified as an elector.
4 (1) Subparagraph 281.3(a)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(ii) is not or will not be Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day; or
(2) Subparagraph 281.3(b)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(ii) is not or will not be Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day.
(a) any person who was under Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age on the day on which the event took place;
(b) the elector is or will be Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day;
SOR/2010-20
3 Every person who is a Canadian citizen and is Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day is qualified as an elector.
Published under authority of the Senate of Canada
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future elector means a Canadian citizen who is 14 years of age or older but under 18 years of age. (futur électeur)
3 Every person who is a Canadian citizen and who on polling day is 18 years of age or older is qualified as an elector.
(5) Despite subsection (4), an election officer appointed under section 32 may be under 18 years of age but must be at least 16 years of age.
281.3 No person shall
(a) vote or attempt to vote at an election knowing that he or she
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(ii) is not 18 years of age or older — or will not be 18 years of age or older — on polling day; or
(b) induce or attempt to induce another person to vote at an election knowing that the other person
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(ii) is not 18 years of age or older — or will not be 18 years of age or older — on polling day.
(3) The registered party’s chief agent shall not include in the report referred to in subsection (1) the name of any of the following persons who attended the regulated fundraising event, nor the name of their municipality or its equivalent, their province or their postal code:
(a) any person who was under 18 years of age on the day on which the event took place;
549.1 (1) For the purposes of subsections 143(3) and (3.2), sections 144 and 147 and paragraphs 161(1)(b) and 169(2)(b), the solemn declaration by which an elector proves his or her identity and residence, proves his or her residence only, proves that he or she is qualified as an elector or proves that he or she has not previously voted at the election shall be in the prescribed form, which shall include the statements that
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(b) the elector is 18 years of age or older or will be 18 years of age or older on polling day;
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3 Every person who is a Canadian citizen and is 18 years of age or older on polling day is qualified as an elector.