Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not sure. I'd have to get back to you on that. It just stands to reason that people are.... For a fixed address, again it becomes a problem. I believe there is a process where somebody can have somebody go to the individual to cast their ballot if they choose, and I may stan

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Whether it's resources or...I think there are various reasons they provide. It may not be a specific one. It's just that I want to bring the point or identify there is a problem there, and how to work around that becomes an issue. It's at least to identify that this is a problem.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's my understanding that many shelters, because of a lack of resources, don't do that. If you have the resources.... There's a lot of people.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can't answer that just offhand. I'd have to look into it and get back to you on it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll let you answer the question. A second level of bureaucracy, trying to get agreement, and to get approval in a timely manner, this is just approval on testing: is that a hindrance or has it become a larger barrier than what we already we have? I would also like to suggest, a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That very well could be. Go down to the mission. If you know Ottawa at all, go down to the mission, to the Salvation Army, to Shepherds of Good Hope, to people living in shelters. Where do they put their physical address? They may not have one. They may not have taxes done. Somet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'd have to get back to you on what's happened recently. In the past, CCD has worked with Elections Canada for information programs. That was one of the worries, the capability of providing information programs. It's how to vote, and the alternative formats like Braille and sign

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First of all, as I said, in the past, CCD has worked with Elections Canada. Getting information to persons with disabilities and even to seniors, to some extent seniors with disabilities, can be problematic. What kinds of forums? We do have nine provinces, one territory, and seve

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a lot of people still in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, seniors, persons with disabilities. These people do vote, especially seniors and persons with disabilities. The administration, because of resources or whatever, may or may not issue letters for this

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll answer first. Part of the problem for some is mobility, just getting where they have to go. One of the big things again is the poverty a lot of people experience. There is a cost to getting identification. Not everybody has a driver's licence, or photo ID with their addres

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can probably speak to part of that. For a large number of people with visual disabilities, who have a problem or are visually impaired, it seems to be a fundamental right that the person should not have to rely on someone else and should be able to independently verify which

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for hearing me. I'm not as fast a reader as some of the others, so I'm just going to highlight some of our points. I understand that you have the full presentation. Council of Canadians with Disabilities, CCD, is a national cross-disability organization with

Transport committee  As I say, unless people have a family...and that makes them reliant on someone else, which creates problems. We'd like to be self-sufficient and independent. It does not foster that kind of environment. I would also suggest because of the baby boomers retiring, as was previousl

Transport committee  It doesn't necessarily have to be every day door-to-door service. It could be a couple of days a week, two or three days a week, something like that. We would encourage something like that.

Transport committee  Unless you have somebody living with you or family friends or whatever, most people have difficulty or can't use the community mailboxes as they are now due to inclement weather, due to the ergonomics of the boxes, due to the difficulties with getting to them, or due to fatigue.