Canada Elections Act (S.C. 2000, c. 9)

Marginal note:Campaigning in public places

• 81.1 (1) No person who is in control of a building, land, street or any other place, any part of which is open without charge to members of the public, whether on a continuous, periodic or occasional basis — including any commercial, business, cultural, historical, educational, religious, governmental, entertainment or recreational place — may prevent a candidate or his or her representative from campaigning in or on that part when it is open without charge to members of the public.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a place if campaigning in or on it would be incompatible with the function and purpose of the place or inconsistent with public safety.

Marginal note:Definition of candidate

82. For the purposes of sections 83 to 88 and 90, a candidate is deemed to have been a candidate from the time he or she accepts a contribution or incurs an electoral campaign expense referred to in section 406.

Marginal note:Appointment of official agent

• 83. (1) A candidate shall appoint an official agent before accepting a contribution or incurring an electoral campaign expense.

• Marginal note:Appointment of auditor

  (2) A candidate shall appoint an auditor on appointing an official agent.

Marginal note:Official agent — ineligible persons

84. The following persons are not eligible to be an official agent:

• (a) a candidate;

• (b) an election officer or a member of the staff of a returning officer;

• (b.1) an undischarged bankrupt;

• (c) an auditor appointed as required by this Act;

• (d) a person who is not qualified as an elector; and

• (e) a person who does not have the capacity to enter into contracts in the province in which he or she ordinarily resides.

Marginal note:Auditor — eligibility

• 85. (1) The following are eligible to be an auditor for a candidate:

  • (a) a person who is a member in good standing of a corporation, an association or an institute of professional accountants; or

  • (b) a partnership of which every partner is a member in good standing of a corporation, an association or an institute of professional accountants.

• Marginal note:Auditor — ineligible persons

  (2) The following persons are not eligible to be an auditor for a candidate:

  • (a) an election officer or a member of the staff of a returning officer;

  • (b) the candidate or any other candidate;

  • (c) the official agent of the candidate or any other candidate;

  • (d) the chief agent of a registered party or an eligible party;

  • (e) a registered agent of a registered party;

  • (f) electoral district agents of registered associations;

  • (g) leadership contestants and their leadership campaign agents;

  • (h) nomination contestants and their financial agents; and

  • (i) financial agents of registered third parties.