Yes, if they are a CIRA member. 

To ensure your membership application is processed before this deadline, we recommend that you submit your application well in advance. If you are using a guarantor to confirm your identity, it's important for them to be accessible during the processing period.

No. Once a nomination committee nominee is selected for the final nomination committee slate, they cannot submit their name to be a member candidate on the final member slate.

Yes. CIRA reserves the right to remove any questions or answers, including links to websites, which do not identify the person submitting the question or answer, contain abusive language, defame any person, contravene any applicable law, infringe upon CIRA's trademarks or proprietary rights, contain material that may be considered offensive, and/or are otherwise objectionable to CIRA.

The Returning Officer will be the moderator.

A CIRA member can only vote once regardless of the number of .CA domain name registrations they hold.

In the election, members can vote for three candidates on the nomination committee slate, and one on the member slate.

A tie occurs when two or more candidates receive the same amount of votes. A tie is settled under supervision of the Returning Officer by a random draw of names of the candidates who tied. The candidate whose name is drawn first will be deemed to have received the highest number of votes.

Under section 23 of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, CIRA is required to provide the list of its members to members who make a request for the list and submit the required Statutory Declaration (see section 23(5)). Members may use the list of members to contact each other for purposes related to the affairs of the organization, including influencing votes in an election.

The list is provided in an electronic format through a secure channel, and includes the members’ names, postal addresses and email addresses.

While CIRA is required by law to provide the list, we strongly encourage members who receive the list to only contact those members who are part of their professional and/or social circle to respect members’ privacy. We also encourage them to retain their own legal counsel to ensure that any use of the list is compliant with the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act as well as any other pieces of legislation.

More questions? See our FAQ on the member site.