Marginal note:Annual report

• 110. (1) The Chairperson shall, as soon as possible after the end of each fiscal year, prepare and transmit to the minister designated by the Governor in Council for the purposes of this section a report for that fiscal year in respect of matters under the Tribunal’s jurisdiction.

• Marginal note:Tabling in Parliament

  (2) The minister to whom the report is transmitted shall cause the report to be laid before each House of Parliament within the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the minister receives it.

PART 7POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

Interpretation

Marginal note:Definitions

• 111. (1) The following definitions apply in this Part.

  “election”

  « élection »

  “election” means a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal election.

  “federal election”

  « élection fédérale »

  “federal election” means an election to the House of Commons.

  “municipal election”

  « élection municipale »

  “municipal election” means an election as the mayor or a member of the council of a municipality.

  “municipality”

  « municipalité »

  “municipality” means

  • (a) an incorporated or unincorporated regional municipality, city, town, village, rural municipality, township, county, district or other municipality, however designated; or

  • (b) any other local or regional authority that is determined by the Governor in Council to be a municipality for the purposes of this Part.

  “political activity”

  « activité politique »

  “political activity” means

  • (a) carrying on any activity in support of, within or in opposition to a political party;

  • (b) carrying on any activity in support of or in opposition to a candidate before or during an election period; or

  • (c) seeking nomination as or being a candidate in an election before or during the election period.

  “provincial election”

  « élection provinciale »

  “provincial election” means an election to the legislature of a province.

  “territorial election”

  « élection territoriale »

  “territorial election” means an election to the Council of the Northwest Territories or the Legislative Assembly of Yukon or of Nunavut.

• Meaning of “deputy head”

  (2) For the purposes of this Part, “deputy head” includes a Commissioner appointed under subsection 4(5) and the Chairperson of the Tribunal designated under subsection 88(5).