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The realities of Alberta student residency

24 Aug 2012

It modernizes the language to better reflect the reality of today’s The Alberta Elections Act states: post-secondary students - for students who rarely As Subject to section 121, for the purposes of return to their family’s home to live following their this Act, ordinary residence is determined in studies, even if while studying they are “temporarily accordance with the following rules. [...] This is why choice is so important and why we are asking for an amendment They have also been working hard with the Ontario to Alberta’s Elections Act in line with what most Ministry of Education to improve outreach with jurisdictions have which put the decision in the students in grades five and twelve to ensure that hands of the voter. [...] Elections New Brunswick offers the following interpretation to post-secondary students: Québec also offers post-secondary students a clear choice when determining ordinary residence during Eligible electors at a Community College or a general election University in the province but outside their “home” region can choose to vote in the election The Québec Elections Act states: in either the distric [...] Ensuring that students are to be included in the polling division of their “school able to vote is crucial, but as well making sure that home” and works closely with the students’ unions, their votes are counted in their community is vital to residences, and universities to ensure that they are maintaining the integrity of the whole vote. [...] The Canada Elections Act states: The Newfoundland and Labrador Elections Act The place of ordinary residence of a person is states: the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to Notwithstanding Rule IV, in the absence of which the person intends to return when away evidence to the contrary, a person who has left from it.
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