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Immigrants urge N.B. to be leader and extend voting rights for municipal elections


Posted: Apr 03, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 3
Asif Hasan is one of the organizers of the Lost Votes Campaign.(Submitted by Asif Hasan)
Immigrants are asking New Brunswick to become the only province in Canada to give people who aren t citizens but have permanent resident status the right to vote in municipal elections.
The Lost Votes Campaign, a grassroots initiative of permanent residents, is gathering support from municipal governments to change the law that allows only Canadian citizens to vote municipally.
Asif Hasan, CEO of Simptek Technologies in Fredericton and a permanent resident from Bangladesh, is one of the organizers calling for the vote something permanent residents had in New Brunswick until 1997. ....

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