Bill C-40 (Historical)

Expanded Voting Opportunities Act

An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in December 2009.

Sponsor

Steven Fletcher Conservative

Status

Second reading (House), as of June 12, 2009
(This bill did not become 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 increase the number of days of advance polling.

Similar bills

C-18 (40th Parliament, 3rd session) Increasing Voter Participation Act

C-16 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (expanded voting opportunities) and to make a consequential amendment to the Referendum Act

C-55 (39th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (expanded voting opportunities) and to make a consequential amendment to the Referendum Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of 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-40s:

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C-40 (2012) Law Appropriation Act No. 2, 2012-13

C-40 (2010) Law Celebrating Canada's Seniors Act

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