No, date of birth. I heard date of birth, on the list only, not on the voter information card.
All right, under recommendation 2.8, “Retention of Statutorily Authorized Personal Identifiers for Later Use”:
Section 46 of the Canada Elections Act authorizes the Chief Electoral Officer to draw upon various sources of information to update the National Register of Electors, including: information that electors have provided to him, information held by government departments where the elector consents to the release of that information, and information collected pursuant to provincial statutes listed in Schedule II of the Act, provided the elector consents to the release of that information. Not all of the information from these sources may be incorporated into the National Register of Electors. Information such as a driver’s licence number and vital statistics, for example, may not be used. The Chief Electoral Officer seeks an amendment to permit him to incorporate such information in the National Register of Electors.
We did speak to the Chief Electoral Officer. It seems the Privacy Commissioner would have some issues with all of this information, but of course our commitment is to increase the accuracy of the list.