Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, but there is a recommendation to correct that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We are even suggesting that an association be authorized to make a transfer pretty well any time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you find it useful, Mr. Chairman, my staff will be more than happy to assist in any supplementary questions or information that you need to do your assessment of the report.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sorry, no. All our activities on the international scene are in response to government initiatives, mostly through CIDA or the Department of Foreign Affairs. The most current example I can give you is that we've been asked by Haiti to assist in certain aspects of their ongoing el

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a number of things. The granddaughter lives with him?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  So my recommendation on vouching would not help.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One thing we're doing, and we're going to test that in the upcoming byelections, is allowing the voter information card to be used as a piece of identity. So if the gentleman had received his voter information card at home, that would present his name and address right there. He

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. It would be the same thing as for the parties. So, if that advertising was used during the election campaign, it would have to be accounted for.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  These provisions—and there is a whole series of recommendations dealing with this—are basically intended to clarify the act to ensure that even if an expense was incurred before the writ was dropped, it must be declared and accounted for during the campaign, if it was made during

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under the current regime, candidates are required to recruit an official agent. However, the official agent is also your representative to a large extent. You are already required to sign the campaign return.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That also suggests that there is liability.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Remember that we are not talking about a strict liability offence here. I won't refer to specific examples, but there have been cases in the past where the official agent was actually acting on instructions from the candidate. I think everyone would expect that, in that kind of