Procedure and House Affairs committee  The letters we were referring to are, for example, letters we would get from a shelter administrator providing proof of address for homeless people. They are just used as proof of residence if those people need to register on polling day. So they are not vouched for in the sense

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It says, “I”--the person who administers the shelter--“know this person, and I can confirm that he or she resides here.”

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's attesting to residence.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it was actually in the by-elections.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of the things we should make clear is that under the current statute you can only vouch for one person. I just want to make that clear, because I know we've seen some testimony that kind of raises that question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We ran two by-elections recently in Repentigny and London North Centre. We wanted to track how often vouching occurred. In London North Centre about 2,800 people actually registered on polling day. The numbers we got back showed that a little over 100 people were vouched for acro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When it comes to cross-tabulations, we've done cross-tabulations of counts. We don't have access to census data with names on it, so we haven't done those kinds of cross-tabulations. In maintaining the national register of electors, we measure the quality of the list by comparin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We've had an agreement since the register was established in 1997 with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. There is a tick box on the citizenship application form such as we have on the income tax form. Some 94% of new Canadians consent to that. What happens is that a coup

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Because they haven't consented to the transfer of that information, we don't get it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think we have. There is also the option for these electors, just as any other elector, to tick the yes box on their income tax form. Once we have that information, we could write to them, and if they confirm their citizenship, we could add them. Of course with the prop

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. We should separate the issues. The equipment we need to replace in the summer is the hardware and software we use in the field during an election. The data we provide at the start of an election actually comes from headquarters. At the start of the election, we take