Stephane Perrault

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his most detailed explanation yet on Wednesday, November 23, 2022, about what kind of "interference" he brought up with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this month.

Almost 100,000 mail-in ballots were not counted in the federal election, most because they arrived after the deadline, a report by Elections Canada has revealed.

The body in charge of administering Canada’s elections was taken by surprise by an announcement that there could be major reforms coming to the way people vote, including a three-day-long polling day.

Canada's chief public health officer is confident people will be able to cast ballots safely in an expected federal election, despite a fourth wave of COVID-19 fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant.

Canadians may have to wait a few days to find out the final results of a federal election called in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's chief electoral officer warns.

Elections Canada watched as social media posts from Canadians began wondering if the last federal election had been rigged by dubious voting machines.

A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from the climate-change lobby.

Voters will go to the polls on Oct. 21 as originally planned after Canada's chief electoral officer decided not to reschedule voting day even though it falls on a Jewish holiday.

"I don't know of any country that could be better positioned for an election than we are, which doesn't mean that we aren't invulnerable or that nothing wrong is going to happen," Elections Canada chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault told National Observer in an interview. "But I don't think that we could have a better system than we do now." 

Canada's chief electoral officer says there's not much his independent agency can do to counter fake news circulated about a candidate in the midst of an election.

The acting head of Elections Canada supports the Trudeau Liberals' attempt to rewrite federal election rules, but warns more needs to be done to limit the influence of foreign money at the ballot box.

The Trudeau government will finally move on Monday, April 30, 2018, on a raft of promised reforms to election laws, but it may already be too late to fully implement them in time for the 2019 federal election.