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.

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

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a voter information card. It is not an identification card.

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

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Second, what is suggested in the report or what I suggest is not that the voter information card be the only ID accepted, but that it be one of the pieces of ID accepted. The difficulty we have with seniors, students, aboriginals and other groups is that we have often done

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You said, I believe, that only 1% of the voter information cards were sent back.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Canada Post, under an agreement we have with them, recovers the rejected voter information cards. Canada Post must then return these cards to us.

Procedure and House Affairs committee   that are similar to what we have at the federal level, but there they accepted the voter information card as one piece of ID that established at least the address and name of the elector. That is something that, in my view, should be considered at the federal level. The other interesting thing

Procedure and House Affairs committee   information card to the list of authorized documents to make it easier for these electors and others to prove their addresses. Finally, we should consider whether the current provisions for vouching may be overly restrictive of electors' abilities to vouch for family members. An approach

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —the voter information card.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First I want to emphasize that the voter information card has not yet been added to the list of authorized pieces. Consequently, it will not be possible to use that card in the next election that was recently triggered. Over the next few months, we're going to conduct

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I also want to make a comment on what my colleague Mr. Proulx mentioned. The voter information card: don't think about it. It would be good for people who work on your team to come and conduct an election campaign with us to see. You're thinking of that, in your

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First, the voter information card wouldn't be the only proof of identity. It would have to be combined with another piece authorized under the act. So there's already a safeguard measure in that respect. Second, we'll have a solution for seniors. Perhaps we should offer them

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , I'm referring to the voter information card--is those students can be registered on campus. If they live in residence, they will receive a voter identification card at their residence. That could help establish their residence on campus, even though their driver's licence shows

Procedure and House Affairs committee   the opportunity to discuss with the Committee the conclusions of a feasibility study on adding the voter information card to the list of pieces of identification authorized by the Chief Electoral Officer. I would very much appreciate an opportunity to engage the Committee on these issues