Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not aware.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For voter fraud--if you include voting twice, a number of people have voted twice. They've signed compliance agreements with the commissioner to that effect. I can't remember the numbers offhand, but we pursue that at every election. We do checks because of what you just said. Ev

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At this point, it is difficult to determine exactly who threw the card in the garbage. We need to look into this further. We could also do some studies and write to these people to ask them why they threw their card away. There may be some people who could do some door-to-door wo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I have already replied to the committee in this regard with respect to the three possibilities it suggested.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I met with Marcel, whom I know very well. He's a good friend. I am very aware of the way the system works in Quebec now. They operate under the procedures set out in the legislation—with two paid individuals. He made a recommendation in which he said that he could make the s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Blanchet hesitated to say that he could do that, and he is the only one who has this type of experience. So I do not intend to make a commitment that goes beyond what he has committed to do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't wish to characterize it like that. I wish to alert the committee to what I've found in terms of what you've requested.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is without a doubt something that will be asked that is not being asked now. That of course will impose a form of burden on electors.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  And this is what I am attempting to do through the recommendations I've made. I'm also trying to reconcile that with the objective, which I think is understandable, of maintaining the integrity of the electoral process by ensuring that only the people who can vote do vote, and th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As you mentioned, in federal elections, it is the residential address that matters, not the elector's domicile. The concept is different from the provisions in the Quebec legislation. The residence is in fact the place where people say they live. Students are entitled to say that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be acceptable proof. There might be some other documents as well, depending on the lists that the committee accepts. For example, a letter containing a bill, a lease or insurance addressed to the person at that address. The person may have his or her driver's licence i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The objective would be to establish a long list, but a list that is also credible and acceptable as well. That is what you are seeking to do here. I tried to tell you that it was not easy, and that we have to expect that this could be a problem for average Canadians who have neve

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The objective was to ensure that where letter carriers found a package of cards in a garbage can, for example, the day after they were delivered, they would recover them and take them back to the postmaster at the place of work. We had taken the necessary steps to have them sent

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I view it as less of a problem, because I think we tend to forget that in those communities people actually know one another and they know where they reside. They actually do. They all live on a reserve or in a particular area and they know one another. They belong to the same co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In a sense, and the people who are actually running the polls are from those communities as well, and they know the people who come up. I think somehow we've lost track of that. There is that element that still persists. It's much more difficult in urban Canada, and I think we ha