Income earned by the following people IS TOTALLY EXCLUDED:
- enumerators;
- election workers who perform this activity in the polling stations during a general election or by-election and who perform the following duties or their equivalent during elections:
- polling officers:
- deputy returning officers;
- secretaries at polling stations;
- officers responsible for providing information and maintaining order;
- officers at the voters identity verification table;
- the officers in charge of the voters’ list.
- if they have been so designated and been given a power of attorney, as a mandatary of a candidate.
This exclusion includes all elections called by a federal, provincial or municipal government or a school authority and censuses called by such events.
These exclusions apply only to people hired temporarily for an election. They are generally hired by the office of the director general of elections for the duration of the election campaign, include the polling day.
With the exception of persons acting as revising agents of the list of electors, returning officers perform their duties only on the day of the advance polling or on the day of the election. Generally, they only work over a very short period.
For other workers associated with an election, work income is not excluded as prescribed by regulation, even if they are hired by the Chief Electoral Officer.