Procedure and House Affairs committee  The surplus goes to the Receiver General.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have that information right now. We could provide it. Again, as you mentioned, it's on the public record.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I had jurisdiction to authorize the extension of time for the repayment of unpaid claims, yes. After I granted those extensions, candidates wanted additional time. At that point, they had to go to court to get those extensions.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, they could apply to a court.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. There are recommendations in this report regarding unpaid claims and their treatment. The current rules are quite convoluted and not very efficient. I am putting forward recommendations to clarify the rules and to achieve better results with those rules. I should point out

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's on the website. It's part of their return. The one thing I would caution you about is that the last time we received information might have been several months ago, so I would advise caution as to whether the figures you'll see there reflect the situation as we speak.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I could not tell you at this point in time. All I can tell you is that we've received a number of complaints of electors who could not be vouched. With respect to e-registration, again it's something that will come back to this committee later on to flesh out more about what's g

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, we're talking about e-registration here.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, again, there are a number of recommendations in the report that seek to improve transparency and accountability with regard to political financing. They have nothing to do with the case you referred to. In fact, it builds on the recommendations of previous reports that had

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's something the committee may want to consider. The point of the recommendation is that we need additional measures other than penal offences to encourage compliance.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do have programs to reach out to various groups of electors. We have what we call community relation officers who engage with shelter administrators to provide information to homeless people who use the shelter as to how they can cast their ballots. We also have programs withi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's very much done at the local level. I will deal with national associations at the national level, but certainly in each riding that's part of the responsibility of the ROs--

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Even in Canada I believe Manitoba still does enumeration, and so does Saskatchewan; so there are a number of provinces that still do enumeration.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I know there's discussion here and there over time. We do compare information. We share the national list with provincial jurisdictions. They use it also to improve their own list. I'm not aware and I wouldn't want to speak for other jurisdictions as to whether they plan to seek

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Quickly, there are a range of services. The first service would be to be able to confirm that you're registered: so you go online, confirm that you're registered at your address. That's simple information. All an elector needs to do with that would be to provide his or her addres