Compliance Agreements


Commissioner Of Canada Elections

Canada Elections Act

Compliance agreement

This notice is published by the Commissioner of Canada Elections, pursuant to section 521 of the Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2000, c. 9.

On February 28, 2018, the Commissioner of Canada Elections entered into a compliance agreement with Mathieu Désilets, pursuant to section 517 of the Canada Elections Act. The text of the compliance agreement is set out in full below.

February 28, 2018

Yves Côté, QC
Commissioner of Canada Elections


Compliance Agreement

Under section 517 of the Canada Elections Act (the Act), the Commissioner of Canada Elections (the Commissioner) and Mathieu Désilets (the Contracting Party) entered into this compliance agreement to ensure compliance with the Act.

The relevant provisions of the Act are subsections 477.59(1) and (7) as well as paragraph 497.4(1)(g) or (2)(i), which make it an offence for a candidate's official agent to fail to provide the Chief Electoral Officer with the candidate's electoral campaign return and other related documents within four months after polling day.

Statements by the Contracting Party

For the purpose of this compliance agreement, the Contracting Party acknowledges the following:

Factors considered by the Commissioner

In entering into this compliance agreement, the Commissioner took into account the factors set out in paragraph 32 of the Compliance and Enforcement Policy of the Commissioner of Canada Elections, which is available on the Commissioner's website. More specifically, the Commissioner took into account the likely effectiveness of the compliance agreement for ensuring rapid compliance with the Act.

Undertakings and agreement

Under this compliance agreement, the Contracting Party undertakes to provide the Chief Electoral Officer with Mr. Vaudry's electoral campaign return as well as other related documents, within 30 days of the day he is notified by the Commissioner that this compliance agreement has been published on the Commissioner's official website.

The Contracting Party agrees in future to comply with the requirements of the Act regarding the provision of the electoral campaign return should he again act as an official agent for a candidate in a federal election.

The Contracting Party consents to the publication of this agreement in the Canada Gazette and on the Commissioner's website.

The Commissioner agrees that the Contracting Party will have complied with this compliance agreement when he has fulfilled the undertaking contained therein.

In accordance with subsection 517(8) of the Act, the Commissioner and the Contracting Party acknowledge that, when a compliance agreement is entered into, the Commissioner may not refer the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions unless there is non-compliance with the conditions of the compliance agreement and, in any event, the Director of Public Prosecutions may not institute such a prosecution unless it has been shown that the compliance agreement has not been complied with.


Signed by the Contracting Party, in the City of Terrebonne, in the Province of Quebec, this 16th day of February, 2018.

Mathieu Désilets

Signed by the Commissioner of Canada Elections, in the City of Gatineau, in the Province of Quebec, this 28th day of February, 2018.

Yves Côté, QC
Commissioner of Canada Elections


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