Canadian Expats

This week has been an IQ test.

How to vote from abroad ? Here’s a guide in the link below.

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Comment voter depuis l’étranger ? Voici les explications dans le lien.

Canadiens à l'étranger – Élections Canada Renseignements sur le vote à l'extérieur du Canada lors de l'élection fédérale de 2021 au Canada.

Next Federal Election on the 20th of September ! Use your right to vote !


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Prochaine élection Fédéral le 20 septembre !
Utilisez votre droit de vote !

We want to hear your stories! Applications for the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming are being accepted until July 15. http://ow.ly/c1Uc50FrPtn

As part of our ongoing efforts to keep the National Register of Electors as accurate as possible, we have sent unaddressed letters to households asking the residents, if eligible, to register to vote or to check or update their voter information.

If you have additional questions regarding this letter, we invite you to visit https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=reg%2Fmai%2Fmai-rev&document=index&lang=e&cid=

In this article we are being explained why we shouldn’t be allowed to vote while living abroad with 3 arguments :
1. Voting is based on the location you live
2. Canadian laws do not apply to Canadian abroad
3. I’m struggling to see where the writer see an argument on what he said...

Now why we should always work on keeping that right is simple:
1. Voting for the last place you’ve been living in even if abroad still make sens
2. We love Canada for different reason and even if we are abroad we still have bonds to the country and wants what we believe is the best for it
3. We are living abroad which means that we have the best opportunities to see how people live outside of Canada and try to bring the good things we see to our fellow Canadians

In short don’t let that right go ! Register on the voter list —> https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=reg/etr&document=index&lang=e

No, Canadians living abroad shouldn’t get to vote On Tuesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a federal law that says Canadian citizens who have lived abroad for more than five years cannot vote in a federal election.

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Very interesting Wikipedia page on how other countries treat their Expats regarding votes
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Page Wikipedia très intéressante au sujet du droit de vote des expatriés par pays d’origine.

Right of expatriates to vote in their country of origin - Wikipedia The right of expatriates to vote in elections in their country of origin varies depending on the legislation of an expatriate’s country of origin. Some countries (such as France) grant their expatriate citizens unlimited voting rights, identical to those of citizens living in their home country. O...

Make sure you keep your right to vote !

Meet 7 of the 1.4 million expats who just lost their right to vote | CBC News They can still say "zed" and fly the Maple Leaf, but these Canadians living outside the country have lost the right to vote in the Oct. 19 federal election.

If you are an eligible Canadian elector living abroad and you have applied to be added to the International Register of electors, please check your inbox. We are currently updating our database. For more information, visit: http://www.elections.ca/mail?cid=

Elections Canada probing thousands of 2019 election ballots with unclear evidence of citizenship | CBC News Elections Canada says it has identified roughly 3,500 cases of people who voted in 2019's federal election where there was conflicting evidence about their citizenship, CBC News has learned.

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Bonjour à tous, si vous avez voté lors des dernières élections fédérale par voie postale, vous aurez certainement reçu un courriel vous demandant de confirmer que vous vivez toujours à la même adresse. N’hésitez pas à y répondre en fonction de votre situation.

Cela permettra d’éviter d’être supprimé des listes électorales des canadiens de l’étranger.

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Hello everyone, if you have been voting for the last federal election by mail, you’ve probably received an email asking you to confirm that you still live at the same address. Do not hesitate to reply following your own situation.

This will garantie that you remain on the foreigner voting list.

Apply to vote by mail – Elections Canada Apply to vote by mail.