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ballot: They cannot receive a special mail-in ballot, and although they can technically come to Canada vote in person, they have a near impossible task of proving residency here, according to Huffington Post Canada. Two sources told Huff Post that Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef is looking at tabling legislation that would give expatriate Canadians the right to vote by special ballot no matter how long they have been away. Canadians who have lived abroad for more than five years are essentially banned from casting a ballot right now. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case in February involving two Canadians who live in the United States and want to vote. Maryam Monsef Minister of Democratic Institutions responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Feb. 2, 2016. Jamie Duong and Gillian Frank first challenged the law in an Ontario court and won in 2014, placing an estimated 1.4 million Canadians back on the voter rolls, but the Conservative government successfully appealed the ruling before last year election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.