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How Elections Canada plans to safeguard mail-in ballots

Long-term care facility representatives and the Assembly of First Nations say the agency needs to provide training well in advance of a potential pandemic election to ensure communities can cast their vote by mail.

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ
November 12, 2020

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The federal Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy, released in 2021, did not result in needed policy changes or alignment of federal departments and investments. In contrast, other top-tier countries place life sciences at the centre of industrial strategies and align the sector with talent, trade, research and development, innovation and infrastructure.

How Elections Canada plans to safeguard mail-in ballots

Long-term care facility representatives and the Assembly of First Nations say the agency needs to provide training well in advance of a potential pandemic election to ensure communities can cast their vote by mail.

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