Elections Canada

Elections Canada

Elections Canada, formally the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, is an agency of the Government of Canada responsible for administering elections in the country. It is an office of the Parliament of Canada.

Organization

  • Centre of Expertise on Rental Agreements (CERA)[1]

Activities

Elections Canada operates an Environmental Monitoring Centre which "monitors publicly available social media and digital content for information about the federal electoral process."[2] It shares analyses of the information collected with its security partners, which include:[3]

  • Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
  • Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
  • Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
  • Global Affairs Canada
  • Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections
  • Public Safety Canada
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Publications


  1. Chapter 2 – Financial policies and procedures (04/2023). (2023, July 27). Elections Canada. http://archive.today/2023.11.17-220843/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=pub/ecdocs/rom/vII/ch_2&document=ch_2&lang=e ↩︎

  2. Elections Canada’s Environmental Monitoring. (2024, January 9). Elections Canada. http://archive.today/2024.04.08-195338/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=int&document=mon&lang=e ↩︎

  3. Election Integrity and Security. (2024, March 28). Elections Canada. http://archive.today/2024.04.08-195341/https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=int&document=index&lang=e%23sap ↩︎

Open Records Disclosures

2025 Canadian federal election internal ‘anomaly’ reporting
A-2025-00029
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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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