Bill C-210
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70 Elizabeth II, 2021 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age)
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FIRST READING, December 13, 2021
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Mr. Bachrach |
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act to lower the federal voting age in Canada from 18 to 16 years of age.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70 Elizabeth II, 2021 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-210 |
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An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (voting age) |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
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1 This Act may be cited as the Right to Vote at 16 Act.
2000, c. 9
Canada Elections Act
2 The definition future elector in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Elections Act is replaced by the following:
future elector means a Canadian citizen who is 14 years of age or older but under Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age. (futur électeur)
3 Section 3 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Persons qualified as electors
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4 Subsection 22(5) of the Act is repealed.
5 (1) Subparagraph 281.3(a)(ii) of the Act is replaced by the following:
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(ii) is not Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older — 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:
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(ii) is not Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older — or will not be Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older — on polling day.
6 Paragraph 549.1(1)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:
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(b) the elector is Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older or will be Insertion start 16 Insertion end years of age or older on polling day;
Coming into Force
Six months after royal assent
7 This Act comes into force on the day that, in the sixth month after the month in which it receives royal assent, has the same calendar number as the day on which it receives royal assent — or, if that sixth month has no day with that number, the last day of that sixth month — unless, before then, the Chief Electoral Officer publishes a notice in the Canada Gazette that the necessary preparations for the bringing into operation of this Act have been made and that it may come into force accordingly, in which case it comes into force on the day on which the notice is published.
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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