1 März 1920 Jahr - Dominion Elections Act
(amendment, 1920)
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Legal citation:
Dominion Elections Act, S.C. 1920, c. 46
Link to case:
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.ssl/sscan0250&i=231&a=eW9ya3UuY2E
"In 1920, amendments to the Dominion Elections Act upheld eligibility to vote in federal elections as dependent on a person being registered on the provincial voters list; however, it added a clause that stipulated that any person disenfranchised by a province 'for reasons of race' would also be excluded from the federal franchise. Voting continued to be regarded as a privilege, rather than as a right.
While voting rights were withheld from Chinese, other statutes, especially enforcement of various amendments to immigration legislation and the eventual imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act, made life difficult for many Chinese families that were often separated solely by discriminatory Canadian law and policy.
Exclusion from federal elections, based on provincial voters lists, endured until amendments to the Dominion Elections Act in 1948 removed its provincial piggy-backing of race provisions. Dismantling racism in federal elections law followed repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and broader reforms brought about by a change in political and social attitudes affected by the Second World War."
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BIPOC Oppression & Resistance in Canada & the US
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