Procedure and House Affairs committee   for both. IT systems and databases—some 95 in total are required to produce, for example, voter information cards, to pay poll workers and to publish election night results—will also need to be adjusted to reflect and operate under the different maps. In the spring of 2024

Procedure and House Affairs committee   are presented there. It is also noted on the voter information card that individuals get. We continue to put those messages out there. We use social media and advertising. It's very much a multimedia campaign. It's a very expensive campaign. The recalls are quite good, but there are some

Procedure and House Affairs committee   see that there is a registration gap in terms of youth under 25. When you look at the Canadian National Register of Electors, 96% of Canadians are on the register. Those who are missing are mainly young Canadians. Those are Canadians who have not received a voter information card

Procedure and House Affairs committee  . Returning officers had to go back to the drawing board and find new locations. Not only was it difficult to find polling stations, but we were also late getting the voter information cards, which must include the polling station. I would say that was the main consequence. We also note

Procedure and House Affairs committee   respect, we write it. For constituencies on the North Shore, ballots are not written in all three dialects; they are only in one. However, it might happen that some words can be written in three dialects. Another idea would be to write certain words on the voter information card

Procedure and House Affairs committee   election, Elections Canada translated the voting guide, voter information cards and some other material into Inuktitut, and their information campaign included ads in Inuktitut among other things. To date, however, Inuktut is not on the ballot, and the efforts by Elections Canada

Procedure and House Affairs committee   instructions were not available in Inuktitut. In example four, the name of the organization, Elections Canada, was not provided in Inuktut on the voter information card. In example five, we are experiencing COVID, and the “mask required” sign posted on a door during election day was only

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns   are represented by the remaining 7.7%, in total and broken down by electoral district, (ii) how many of the electors referred to in (i) were sent a voter information card; and (b) in respect of Elections Canada's registration letter campaign targeted to "select regions with lower youth

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, obviously the lateness of the voter information cards is not something that we wished for. I think it's important to have them early, but they are dependent on the ability to confirm a poll. Without those polls, they were delayed by one week. It's very difficult

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Madam Chair, the report noted that there was a delay in issuing voter information cards. In some contexts, they were arriving the week of the election. Madam Chair, does Elections Canada believe that voter participation would have been higher had the VICs been

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Through you, I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here today. I have a question with respect to voter information cards. In the report provided to the committee, the issue of voter information cards, VICs, was highlighted on the bottom

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , and I can certainly follow up with the committee on the measures we take to inform new Canadians, because we do have measures in place. It is unfortunate that some are still under the impression that they cannot vote without a voter information card. Clearly that is not the case

Procedure and House Affairs committee   landlords who had earlier indicated they would rent to us reversed their decision in the context of the emerging fourth wave. Difficulties in confirming polling locations led to delays in issuing voter information cards. This did not prevent us from increasing the number of advance

Procedure and House Affairs committee   sending voter information cards to every elector, is that correct?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   material and thousands of special ballot bags to run the election while at the same time ensuring that 27 million voter information cards and 15.4 million federal election guides were distributed to Canadians in a timely manner. During every writ period, we're also proud to deliver