On July 20, 2015, in Frank v. Canada (Attorney General) (2015 ONCA 536, CANLII), the highest court of Ontario upheld the validity of a section of the Canada Elections Act that prohibits long-term Canadian expatriates from voting in federal elections. In a split decision, the justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario overturned a Superior Court of Justice ruling, in which the judge had found that the restriction was unconstitutional.

Read the op-ed in the Globe and Mail by Canadian actor and long-term US resident Donald Sutherland: I’m Canadian and I should have the right to vote.