Procedure and House Affairs committee  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

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, I agree with all that's been said, and I really don't mind the way the rule for Quebec reads in the document we have been handed. I continue to want to force the issue that the voter information card is in no way a piece of identification. It should not be used

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—

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

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

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First, we have responded to Mr. Reid, Mr. Chairman, to explain to him what had happened and how this had happened. Of course, it will continue to happen in isolated instances. What we also make clear is that you can only vote once, and that the voter information card is a voter

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

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

Procedure and House Affairs committee   is that at the point at which the notice of confirmation of registration or the voter information cards are sent out, the election period has already begun, and so the updating that needs to be done is generally in relation to the list of electors rather than the register, which is what the CEO

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you weren't sophisticated, you might think, having received two voter information cards, that you could vote twice.

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

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

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

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

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