Bill C-18 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (verification of residence)

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.

Sponsor

Peter Van Loan  Conservative

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act to allow an elector or voucher who provides a piece of identification that does not prove his or her residence to use that piece of identification to prove his or her residence provided that the address on the piece of identification is consistent with information related to the elector or voucher that appears on the list of electors.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-18s:

C-18 (2022) Law Online News Act
C-18 (2020) Law Canada—United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement Implementation Act
C-18 (2020) Law Appropriation Act No. 2, 2020-21
C-18 (2016) Law An Act to amend the Rouge National Urban Park Act, the Parks Canada Agency Act and the Canada National Parks Act

Procedure and House Affairs Committee, on Nov. 27, 2007

  • Peter Van Loan, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
  • Natasha Kim, Senior Policy Advisor, Legislation and House Planning, Privy Council Office
  • Marc Chénier, Counsel, Legislation and House Planning, Privy Council Office

Procedure and House Affairs Committee, on Dec. 4, 2007

  • Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer

Procedure and House Affairs Committee, on Dec. 11, 2007

  • Naresh Raghubeer, Executive Director, Canadian Coalition for Democracies
  • Ian Boyko, Government Relations Coordinator, Canadian Federation of Students
  • Tina Bradford, Staff Representative, BC Government and Service Employees' Union
  • James, Jim) Quail (Executive Director, British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre
  • Murray Mollard, Executive Director, B.C. Civil Liberties Association
  • Michel Bédard, Committee Researcher