Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a great recommendation. Hopefully other members can agree that it's a great recommendation so that I can incorporate a great recommendation from the committee rather than just one partisan member. I've always found voter information cards to be useful. I think voters

Democratic Reform   information cards to prove their address, and another 120,000 people had someone vouch for them so they could vote. Does the minister agree that if he gets rid of vouching and voter information cards, 520,000 people could be disenfranchised?

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, when she talks about 500,000 voters, she is assuming that every person who used a voter information card had no other option. The vast majority of Canadians did not even have the right to use voter information cards as proof of identity during the last election. We

Procedure and House Affairs committee   and enforce compliance with this provision. I recommend that the exemption for the cost of fundraising communications be dropped from the bill. Turning to voter information cards and vouching, the proposal to eliminate VICs and vouching is wrong. No hard evidence of voter fraud has been

Procedure and House Affairs committee   that only committee approval be required for the test of electronic voting systems. Next is voter identification rules. We've heard quite a bit about that tonight. Bill C-23's proposal to eliminate vouching and prohibit the use of voter information cards, VIC, for verifying a voter's

Procedure and House Affairs committee   card”, and it is sent to voters who are on the official list of electors. You had some concerns that particularly people with some struggles or issues might not have identification that they would have to pay for to use when voting. Were you aware that the voter information card

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I just remind everybody that the Chief Electoral Officer spoke to how comparatively accurate the voter information cards are in terms of their being the most accurate piece of federal ID that exists and said that the fact that some people aren't on the register doesn't make them

Procedure and House Affairs committee   situations as being another possibility. I wanted to ask this as well. The VIC, the voter information card, I don't know how often it is actually available to people who are in institutional settings. I got the impression from the Chief Electoral Officer's testimony

Procedure and House Affairs committee   on doing these things, which he has been neglecting for years and years and years, despite the ongoing need. Having said all of that, I have a question for Ms. Bergeron. I wanted to ask about the voter information card, which is of course the piece of mail that arrives telling you

Democratic Reform   is concerned about voter information cards. The minister would have known this if only he had consulted. Why did he not even bother consulting provincial elections officials who also have expertise in this area?

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, the troubles with the voter information card are patently evident, and the member can find out about them on Elections Canada's own website. The agency admits that in the last election there were errors in one in six cards. It claims now that it has improved it so

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of the voter information card as a form of identification. We know that over 100,000 Canadians established their identity by vouching in the last election. There are very strong reasons to believe that these individuals will be disenfranchised if Bill C-23 passes as it currently stands. I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , and it has massive errors in it. By the Chief Electoral Officer's own reports, it has an error rate as to people's place of residence of around 16% to 17%. The voter information card is produced from the preliminary list, not from the final list, so it retains that error rate. He says

Procedure and House Affairs committee   directly to Parliament but to government. Secondly, on voting rights and turnout, I think the committee has heard much discussion about vouching and the use of voter information cards. Quite simply, I don't believe that voter fraud is a major problem. If the Canadian Parliament

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , or there is some sort of error as to their information on the list. He should be telling people how an elector may vote, and all the different ways of doing it—advance polls, mail-in ballots, and so on—which is really not advertised very much. It is on the voter information card, but you have