I think we have to be very careful about collecting people's data. The way I read this--and just work with me here--it says things like a driver’s licence number and vital statistics, for example, may not be used.
Well, I don't see any movement to using the driver's licence as an identifier. I think we've moved to the date of birth.
I am very much in support of StatsCan supplying that kind of information for the purpose of the database for electors only, but does this open us up to social insurance numbers being somehow merged in some data bank, anywhere, whether we get it at the polling stations or not?
I think you have to put some parameters around this, so I'd like to know exactly what this means. It seems like a no-brainer as to how to update the electoral list, but I don't want to throw this wide open so that now, all of a sudden, when I get a driver's licence, that becomes part of the data bank, or you're accessing the social insurance number, or anything like that.