Electoral Reform committee  Yes, definitely.

Electoral Reform committee  We try to do it. Particularly during the election campaign, we try to reach out. We publish basic information on voting during a federal election in 35 heritage languages. These languages are revised periodically to reflect the immigration demographic in the country. We also try

Electoral Reform committee  That personnel will do the day-to-day tasks, but they will be able to speak the language of electors in that riding. When they are a large community, we'll make a special effort to reach out to leaders in the community so they refer staff who can speak some of the languages. We h

Electoral Reform committee  Connectivity, even though it's improving all the time, remains an issue in many parts of the country. As I mentioned earlier, electronic tabulation may have its limits for very remote areas for the simple fact that connectivity is not always up to par. I think that's a government

Electoral Reform committee  Aside from amending the legislation? I think an important aspect is this. When we study non-voters, one of the things that comes out is that because of all sorts of reasons there is less and less personal contact between electors and candidates. Any time you show up at a school,

Electoral Reform committee  I'd be happy to share that with you, but it does make a difference in terms of engaging young people, particularly.

Electoral Reform committee  That's an interesting question. That's truly a public policy question. It's less a feasibility matter than whether it's a desirable matter. On this point I trust parliamentarians to give us direction in that regard.

Electoral Reform committee  Everything is possible. That's an interesting question. I'll need to think about it. Again it would require all sorts of changes to the readjustment act because it sets a quota of population per riding. We need to change all that. If I understand your question it's whether we cou

Electoral Reform committee  Those 30 seats now have to be redistributed across the country, by province.

Electoral Reform committee  I believe the problem may be exacerbated by the social policy that we have to keep seniors in their homes. We're talking more and more about home care providers, and this means that those seniors will no longer be living in common residences. That means to some extent there will

Electoral Reform committee  Without knowing which scenarios are being considered, I can't answer that. As I've already said multiple times, I believe that, with a specific scenario in May 2017, I would be able to run an election based on that scenario in 2019. If, however, neither the committee nor the gov

Electoral Reform committee  On that aspect specifically no, but it is an issue that has come up in various focus groups or discussion forums.

Electoral Reform committee  It would be in the Referendum Act.

Electoral Reform committee  In conjunction there would be additional incremental costs, but of course we're not talking of the same order obviously because most of the costs still have to be incurred. It would probably mean a second ballot, and would probably need a few more staff to handle the thing and es

Electoral Reform committee  I'm not in a position to advise you on the timetable. I think the committee will quickly understand the challenges and its ability to meet the deadlines. I'm not in a position to comment on that. You talked about a combined referendum-election, which would require legislative ch