Canada's election law has changed

Parliament has changed the Canada Elections Act - the law that sets out the rules for electing Members to the House of Commons.

These changes are now in effect. They cover a number of areas, including:

• Third party advertising
  
• Candidates
  
• Campaign contributions
  
• Canvassing
  
• Election posters
  
• Opinion surveys
  
• Blackout period for advertising and new opinion survey results
  

Supreme Court of Canada decision on third party advertising expense limits. Click here.

For more information, click here.

The new Act can be accessed from this site in HTML format or PDF format.

If you have any questions about the information on this site, please call Elections Canada's Enquiries Unit at 1 800 INFO-VOTE (1 800 463-6868) or, for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, TTY 1 800 361-8935.