Procedure and House Affairs committee  Have you ever—and this is for all three witnesses—witnessed voter fraud to do with VICs, voter information cards?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   would share my opinion—is informing people of the logistics of voting. In other words, there are a lot of different IDs that are available. You're advocating bringing back the idea of a voter information card, but there are 39 forms that exist now. I think a lot of people aren't

Procedure and House Affairs committee   Canadians work the polls on a general election. We are 15 months away from the 43rd general election and nothing has been put into law. Improvements that are of particular note are the use of voter information cards as a piece of valid ID. This should speed up the voting process

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of the Chief Electoral Officer to authorize the notice of confirmation of registration, the voter information card, as identification. This is a welcome step in our view. We also support the restoration of the ability of the Chief Electoral Officer to undertake public education

Procedure and House Affairs committee   support for portions of the bill that reverse some of the negative changes that were made when Parliament passed the so-called Fair Elections Act. We welcome the provisions that allow for the use of voter information cards, the return of vouching, as well as the loosening

Procedure and House Affairs committee   problems may exist, Elections Canada should exhaust other options first before addressing those problems before closing off possible, valid methods of identification. Therefore, we support restoring vouching and enabling the use of voter information cards as valid methods

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're now reinstating the voter information card—as a part, but not the only part—as a backstop to identification. I want to get your thoughts on that, Mr. Marlatt.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I see. I was wondering where the link was going, because I know that was specifically for the House of Commons, not necessarily for.... You're linking it through what the U.K. commission recommends. This question is for both of you, on identification and the voter information

Procedure and House Affairs committee   information card. I think that scenario is pretty hard to imagine, but I think a good illustration of that would be what you've mentioned about the students. Have you ever had a student who couldn't provide that identification? Maybe they didn't have it with them and they were able

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of ID, for example a driver's licence, but they still have to make the second piece concrete. Do you think the voter information card is a second concrete piece of identification that is vital to our system?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A voter information card is not a greeting card I buy at a store, for goodness' sake. It does have a system behind it by which that authentication....probably even more than many of the pieces of ID that you mentioned.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  How many students do you think may have been impacted by the taking away of voter information cards?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The legislation we're studying right now, Bill C-76, reverses that and brings back the voter information card. Do you think more students would be likely to go out to polls if they were able to use that as one of their pieces of identification?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   the act were with regard to prohibiting the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer, or CEO, to authorize the use of the voter information cards as valid ID for voting, and limiting the CEO's authority to carry out voter education and outreach. Students face additional barriers

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With respect to this bill and the voter information card and the vouching, as well as the commissioner's enhanced ability to enforce the Canada Elections Act, can you talk about those three points and how you feel about them in Bill C-76?