Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Competent courts

• 525 (1) The following courts are competent courts for the purposes of this Part:

  • (a) a court listed in subsection (2) that has jurisdiction in all or part of the electoral district in question; and

  • (b) the Federal Court.

• Marginal note:Courts

  (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the courts are

  • (a) in the Province of Ontario, the Superior Court of Justice;

  • (b) in the Province of Quebec, the Superior Court;

  • (c) in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court;

  • (d) in the Provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Court of Queen’s Bench;

  • (e) in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Trial Division of the Supreme Court; and

  • (f) in Nunavut, the Nunavut Court of Justice.

• Marginal note:Rules of procedure

  (3) An application shall be dealt with without delay and in a summary way. The court may, however, allow oral evidence to be given at the hearing of the application in specific circumstances.