Recall of a Member of Parliament Act
An Act to establish a process to recall members of Parliament
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
Brent Rathgeber Independent
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of June 17, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
The purpose of this enactment is to allow electors of an electoral district to apply to the Chief Electoral Officer for issuance of a petition for the recall of the member of Parliament who was elected in that electoral district. If the petition is signed by at least 25% of the electors who were eligible to vote in that electoral district at the time the member to be recalled was last elected and who still reside in the district, the seat of the member is declared vacant and a recall election is held on the same basis as a by-election under the Canada Elections Act.
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.