Decision by The Lord Chancellor | Decided 17 December 1902 | |
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Full case name The Collector of Voter for the Electoral District of Vancouver City and the Attorney General for the Province of British Columbia v Tomey Homma and the Attorney General for the Dominions of Canada Citation(s) [1902] UKPC 60, [1903] 9 AC 151, CCS 45 Judges sitting The Lord Chancellor, Lord Macnaghten, Lord Davey, Lord Robertson, Lord Lindley Judge sittings Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury People also search for Union Colliery Co of British Columbia v Bryden | ||
Cunningham v Homma is a famous decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that upheld a British Columbia law that prohibited Japanese Canadians and Chinese Canadians from voting.
The Council held that, although the federal government had the exclusive jurisdiction over "naturalization", the right to vote in provincial elections was not inherent for naturalized citizens, but rather had to be legislated. Thus, it was up to the municipalities to determine who could have the right to vote and could prohibit any naturalized ethnic group they chose.
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