Study to consider extending city voting to residents
A study is to consider offering the municipal vote to permanent residents as well as to Canadian citizens. People can live here for a lifetime without taking out citizenship, but the law as it stands bars them from voting at any level. Projet promised to look into changing that, although apparently both Toronto and Vancouver have tried the same idea but been blocked by their provincial governments.
mb 12:35 on 2019-10-01 Permalink
As a permanent resident myself (and likely for a long time, since I would lose my original citizenship if I became Canadian, which I’m not ready for yet), I would greatly appreciate! But I doubt Québec will let this happen, since the majority of PRs is in Montreal and probably leans to the left…
Kate 21:41 on 2019-10-01 Permalink
mb, do they? Municipally? I wonder if anyone’s done a study to find out if that’s so.
I’d be pleased to see this happen, if only because the turnout for municipal elections is low. I tell people that it’s actually the city administration that affects us most closely and most often in our daily lives so it’s worth taking an interest, but I’ve been laughed off for this more than once.