CRIM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canada Elections Act, Mental Disorder, Immigration Law

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 335
• Professor: Tamara O' Doherty

Document Summary

Democratic and mobility rights s. 3: every citizen of canada has right to vote in an election of members of the house of commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein. Limited to those 18 and older and chief electoral officer; residency requirements. Holding office limitation: where conviction, ban for 5 year period constitutional (harvey, ** per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t reside(cid:374)ts (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:448)ote; (cid:374)eeds permanent address (problem for students studying here from other provinces); priso(cid:374)ers (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:448)ote. ); religious/cultural reasons s. 4: no hoc and no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than 5 years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members. Except in times of war s. 5: there shall be a sitting of parliament and of each legislature at least once every 12 months. Interaction with other charter sections s. 33 notwithstanding clause does not apply to these sections.