Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, a student card is an acceptable form of identification according to Elections Canada. However, one out of six voter information cards contains mistakes. That is too many. An episode of the television program Infoman showed two people voting twice with these cards

Procedure and House Affairs committee   and chief executive officer of the Greater Toronto Apartment Association. The members of that association were owners and operators of multi-family apartment buildings throughout the greater Toronto area. I certainly heard anecdotally from members about voter information cards

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You've touched on two issues. One is vouching and one is the use of the voter information card as a form of ID. Let me address the latter first and the former second. The voter information card draws its information from the national register of electors, on which one in six

Procedure and House Affairs committee   say that, I get the sense that I'm in the movie 1984 because that is not at all what the bill will do. I'm not sure whether you are aware, but in 2011, 62% of students who had the option available used the voter information card when they voted. Now you are taking that option away

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to thank the honourable member for her question, but I disagree that voter turnout among young people will drop, and I'll tell you why. First off, as she mentioned, young people and students were able to vote for years without having to use voter information cards

Procedure and House Affairs committee   information associated with their name. That false information then flows onto the voter information card. We cannot have voter information cards that have errors one in six times used to identify voters at the polls. It is too susceptible to abuse. That's why we're removing that form

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. On your point, Mr. Reid, related to voter information cards, I think that one measure in the fair elections act that will help deal with election day confusion and which was identified by Mr. Neufeld was increasing the number of people who have pre

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, based on the list used to generate voter information cards, the information for one out of six people is incorrect. One-sixth of the voter cards contain errors and that results in electoral fraud, as we have already seen. There was even a Quebec

Business of Supply  . Another example is a student who has a student card but does not have a driver's licence. That person will not be able to vote. I would also like to add that voter information cards will no longer be able to be used as proof of identity. This creates the same problem. The bill also

Business of Supply   clear, predictable, and easier to follow. It would crack down on voter fraud by prohibiting vouching or voter information cards as acceptable forms of ID. This last provision, cracking down on voter fraud, will be the focus of my remarks today. Each time people vote fraudulently

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During debate on Bill C-23 on February 6, I stated in the House that I had witnessed an event that had taken place with respect to voter information cards. After reviewing the transcript in the blues, I recognized that this was an error

The Budget   of a government that puts political interests ahead of the national interest. Bill C-23 aims to make it harder, not easier, to vote by scrapping voter information cards and eliminating the vouching system. It restricts Elections Canada from promoting the very act of voting, leaving

Democratic Reform   information card to vote more than once in highly publicized cases that happened in the leader of the NDP's own hometown.

Democratic Reform   information cards that are sent out, which are allowing people to vote more than once or in ridings in which they do not live. There have been documented cases of violations in this regard. We are putting an end to it.

Privilege  —Streetsville had an epiphany. He suddenly realized that his story was completely fabricated and that he was gravely mistaken when he said that he had seen, with his own eyes, people using voter information cards to commit election fraud. It took him 18 days. I would like to know what went