Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.
Procedure and House Affairs committee been gone for five or six years or have died. And yet they are still on the list. If people are allowed to use the voter information card, I think we are opening the door to fraud. I would ask you to be very cautious in this regard. On page 38 of your report, you talk about
February 24th, 2009Committee meeting
Marcel ProulxLiberal
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's a voter information card. It is not an identification card.
December 4th, 2007Committee meeting
Marc Mayrand
Procedure and House Affairs committee advertising program, which was mostly legalistic and very repulsive—that is the expression—to something that is more user friendly, and that enticed people to vote. We also, for the very first time in a provincial election, used voter information cards. It had never been done before
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Jean Ouellet
Procedure and House Affairs committee is that it looks like about a quarter had kept the material that was sent to their houses, a little more than that on the requirement for information, and the voter information card, which was still sent to everybody, appeared to be the principal source of information. In terms of newspaper
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Peter Van LoanConservative
Procedure and House Affairs committee If I were to make a suggestion to Elections Canada, based on what I see here, the main information people seem to turn to is the voter information card that is sent to their home. The newspaper ads and radio ads are less effective.
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Peter Van LoanConservative
Procedure and House Affairs committee . With the new requirements, people will no longer be able to pick up voter information cards abandoned at apartment building entrances, and vote under the name of a different voter. There will also be no way to vote in a riding where the voter works, rather than in the riding where
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Peter Van LoanConservative
Procedure and House Affairs committee agreement. As regards the voter information card, there was a project—and we will have to check on this—to put the cards into an envelope with a window, so that we could have even more control over what happened to them. We would have to check how far that project got, I do not remember
February 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee , but under the new act, I think we will be losing more people, and that is unfortunate. Second, there has been a recommendation that the voter information card be placed in an envelope. I would like to hear your views on that. My third question has to do with people's birth date
February 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
Yvon GodinNDP
Procedure and House Affairs committee a voter information card listing a business address in Edmonton Centre. Further analysis indicated that the addresses of these 21 electors had been updated in the National Register of Electors based on information that they had provided to the Canada Revenue Agency or the Alberta
February 8th, 2007Committee meeting
William Corbett
Procedure and House Affairs committee If you weren't sophisticated, you might think, having received two voter information cards, that you could vote twice.
February 8th, 2007Committee meeting
William Corbett
Procedure and House Affairs committee I would like to go back to the beginning of your presentation, if I may. You referred to the by-elections in London North Centre and Repentigny, and you said that Canada Post helped recover the voter information cards. What is done with these cards? I know that Canada Post does
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Luc MaloBloc
Procedure and House Affairs committee that poll officials would accept voter information cards as proof of identity, my office instructed election workers to collect them at the entrance to the polling station. That suggestion was made here, at the committee. Second, we modified the notice posted at the polls informing
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee the statute. This is something the committee should consider. With respect to the VIC, voter information card, it is still being sent to people. Some are being thrown away. I'm having discussions right now with the president of Canada Post to see how we could prevent those cards from
October 26th, 2006Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee in there that voter information cards, magazine subscriptions, hydro bills, etc., are not acceptable forms of identification. Are we happy with that? We'll bring the wording back to the committee—
June 15th, 2006Committee meeting
The ChairConservative
Procedure and House Affairs committee That we simply add to the clause that voter information cards, magazines subscriptions, etc., are not acceptable pieces, simply to clarify that, no, you can't use these. Okay? That's how I'm proposing we reword this, and we'll discuss it further on Tuesday. Mr. Hill, further
June 15th, 2006Committee meeting
The ChairConservative