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The results were a "supermajority" of 60.92% voting for retaining the current "first past the post" electoral system and 39.8% voting for the proposed Single Transferable Vote. A mail-in referendum was held from June 13 to August 5, 2011, on the fate of the province's harmonized sales tax. The government pledged to discontinue the tax if more ...
No formal right to vote existed in Canada before the adoption of the Charter.There was no such right, for example, in the Canadian Bill of Rights.Indeed, in the case Cunningham v Homma (1903), it was found that the government could legally deny the vote to Japanese Canadians and Chinese Canadians (although both groups would go on to achieve the franchise before section 3 came into force).
Presentation of petition by Political Equality League for enfranchisement of women, Winnipeg, 23 December 1915 Political cartoon commenting on women's voting rights in Quebec, 1930. Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times in different jurisdictions to different demographics of women. Women's right to vote began in the three ...
An exception was made to the section 50 rule in 1916 so that the House of Commons in the 12th Canadian Parliament could last longer than five years due to the First World War, but this was through a one-time constitutional amendment (the British North America Act, 1916).
Right to vote granted to all women, subject to property qualification; Where the wife holds real property and the husband does not, she may renounce her right to vote in favour of him; 1922 The Municipal Amendment Act, 1922, S.O. 1922, c. 71, s. 3 Municipalities given the option to set Election Day as the first Monday of December 1937
The timeline of elections in Canada covers all the provincial, territorial and federal elections from when each province was joined Confederation through to the present day. The table below indicates which party won the election. Several provinces held elections before joining Canada, but only their post-Confederation elections are shown. These ...
Of the $46 million in political contributions received in 2009 by federal party organizations and riding associations, between $28.5 million and $31 million of the contributions was publicly funded - through tax credits amounting to between 62% and 67.5% - while between $15 million and $17.5 million was net private funding. [4]
Canada's first recorded election was held in Halifax in 1758 to elect the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia. [1] All Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who currently reside in Canada as of the polling day [2] (or at any point in their life have resided in Canada, regardless of time away) may vote in federal elections. [3]