Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think I said postal box address.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and therefore they cannot establish residence with that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To look at the system that we have now is perhaps the best answer I can provide. That is to say, many homeless people have a health card at least, some piece of ID. They have a health card. They don't have a driver's licence, but they have a health card because they need health s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is a document that we have prepared called a “statement of residence”, which the people who run the shelters can fill out. It's all preset. So we do that already. We ask returning officers to identify where these shelters are in their ridings and to visit them beforehand,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is exactly what we recommended as well—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —that the person would attest in writing to the names being added to the list, attest they are Canadian and they are the person being mentioned and this is their birthdate.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think we've considered it. Perhaps we could approach Citizenship and Immigration and ask--perhaps you wish to add something else--ask them to write to the people who said no. We cannot know who said no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They cannot tell us who said no; otherwise, they're giving us data that people don't want us to have. We don't know who they are. Perhaps we could ask them to please write to those people again. That is something. I don't know if we've considered that, Rennie.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  May I ask Mr. Molnar to respond?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've developed our systems through thorough testing. The Auditor General has verified this and she produced a report in November 2005. We have not had failures in our systems development on the register or on the field systems, and we intend to maintain that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I am, because the system has proven itself. IBM is responsible for maintaining the equipment, and they do it. They've told us this is the end, and that's what we're respecting. That has been part of our plan for some time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I'm recommending is what I recommended before—which was turned down—which is go back to when we did door-to-door by taking the word of the person who's answering the door and saying their spouse is also a Canadian and she or he is also 18 or over and his or her name is such-

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Part of what we're doing is examining the whole process, especially for polling-day registrants, which you identified you would like more information about. That's where I committed. As part of that, if there is any indication of a problem, we've not found it so far, but we've no

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At this stage, we're aiming for the end of January to complete the review.