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Provincial political contribution slip
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Political contributions are governed by the Election Act and are made public. Your name, your postal code, your municipality and the amount of your contribution will be published on our website.
You must make your own contribution. Since your name, your address and the amount of your contribution are considered public information pursuant to the Election Act, they will be shared with political entities so your contribution can be processed.
Protecting your personal information
The personal information we collect using this form allows us to confirm the compliance of your political contribution and to remit it to the political entity of your choice. All requested information is mandatory, unless otherwise noted.
You may obtain a copy of your information or request that it be corrected by contacting the person responsible for access to documents and the protection of personal information at Élections Québec. For more on this topic, see our Policy on privacy.
Excerpts from relevant sections of the Election Act (CQLR, chapter E-3.3) and the Civil Code of Québec.
To be a qualified elector, a person must be at least 18 years of age, be a Canadian citizen and have been domiciled in Québec for six months. In addition, the elector must not have lost their right to vote because of a tutorship or have been convicted, in the past five years, of an offence that is a corrupt electoral practice within the meaning of the Election Act, the Referendum Act, the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities or the Act respecting school elections to elect certain members of the boards of directors of English-language school service centres (sections 1 and 568).
Under the Civil Code of Québec, the domicile of a person, for the exercise of their civil rights, is at the place of their principal establishment (section 75). If a person has more than one residence, the one that is the main residence is taken into account when establishing the domicile (section 77).
Only an elector may make a contribution. Every contribution must be made by the person himself or herself out of his or her own property. A contribution must be made voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and may not be reimbursed in any way (sections 87 and 90).
Section 91 sets out the total contributions the same elector may make to each party, independent MNA or authorized independent candidate.
All monetary contributions over $50 must be paid by cheque or another order of payment signed by the elector and drawn on their account in a bank, trust company or a financial services cooperative with an office in Québec. However, such a contribution may also be made, in accordance with the directives of the Chief Electoral Officer, by means of a credit card or a debit card issued by a credit card company (section 95).
Every contribution must be accompanied with a contribution slip approved by the Chief Electoral Officer. This contribution slip must include the contributor's given name and surname, their domiciliary address, the amount of the contribution and a declaration signed by the elector confirming that the contribution is being made out of their own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it has not and will not be reimbursed in any way (section 95.1).
The contributor's given name and surname, their domiciliary address and the amount of the contribution are considered public information (section 126).
The following persons a liable to a fine of $5,000 to $20,000 for a first offence (section 564.1):
The elector who falsely declares that their contribution is made out of their own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it has not or will not be reimbursed in any way.
Any person who uses threats, coercion or a promise of compensation, consideration or reimbursement to incite an elector to make a contribution;
Under section 564.2, a person who contravenes or attempts to contravene any of the provisions of sections 87 through 91 of the Election Act, for a first offence, is liable to a fine of $5,000 to $20,000, in the case of a natural person, or a fine of $10,000 to $50,000, in the case of a legal person.
These offences are corrupt electoral practices (section 567). Pursuant to section 568, a person convicted of such an offence loses, in particular, the right to vote, to be a candidate in an election, to engage in partisan work and to work as an election officer for a five-year period from the date of the ruling.
Any information relating to a penal proceeding instituted by the Chief Electoral Officer or a conviction related to the offences listed in sections 564.1 (1) and (2) and 564.2 will be forwarded to the Autorité des marchés publics for appropriate processing under the Act respecting contracting by public bodies (section 569.1).
