When is the deadline for appeal to the supreme court from a contested election decision?
The catalogue records a 8 days period from The day the decision under s 531(2) of the Canada Elections Act was given. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- 8 days
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- The day the decision under s 531(2) of the Canada Elections Act was given
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- NONE. Supreme Court Act s 59(3) provides that s 59, the only power to extend an appeal period into this Court under special circumstances, "does not apply to appeals under section 532 of the Canada Elections Act". Rule 6(1) cannot help either: it extends or abridges only "a period provided for by these Rules". Treat this period as absolute.
- ADDED ON VERIFICATION: this is the shortest appeal period into this Court and the only genuinely non-extendable one, and the researched catalogue omitted it entirely even though Supreme Court Act s 59(3) points straight at it. A practitioner reading the catalogue would find only the s 58 sixty and thirty day periods and would assume an extension was available. Eight days is not "less than six days", so the r 5(2) holiday exclusion would not apply even if it could reach the period, and in any event the period is not one "under these Rules", so neither the r 5(3) July suspension nor the r 5.1 December recess applies. Only the Interpretation Act governs: s 27(5) excludes the day the decision was given, and s 26 permits filing on the next day that is not a holiday. The Court must then hear the appeal "without delay and in a summary manner" (s 532(2)), and the Registrar sends copies of the decision to the persons mentioned in s 526(1), any intervenor and the Speaker of the House of Commons (s 532(3)). Source: Canada Elections Act, SC 2000, c 9, s 532 (text current to 2026-06-14, last amended 2026-03-12); Supreme Court Act, RSC 1985, c S-26, s 59(3); Interpretation Act, RSC 1985, c I-21, ss 26, 27(5).