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Article 65
 

Ineligible candidates


The following persons are not eligible to be a candidate:


(a) a person who is not qualified as an elector on the date on which his or her nomination paper is filed;


(b) a person who is disentitled under paragraph 502(3)(a) while they are so disentitled;


(c) a member of the legislative assembly of a province;


(d) [Repealed, 2018, c. 31, s. 52]


(e) the Chief Electoral Officer;


(f) a judge appointed by the Governor in Council, other than a citizenship judge appointed under the Citizenship Act;


(g) a person who is imprisoned in a correctional institution;


(h) an election officer; and


(i) a person who was a candidate in a previous election and for whom a return, report, document or declaration has not been provided under subsection 477.59(1), if the time and any extension for providing it have expired.


2000, c. 9, s. 65; 2002, c. 7, s. 92; 2014, c. 2, s. 49, c. 12, s. 25; 2018, c. 31, s. 52.