Procedure and House Affairs committee  As a general policy and principle, the more that can be done to increase and encourage access to voting, I think is good. The evidence I've seen presented suggests that vouching will harm that principle.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Third, it has to come from a trusted intermediary. Those are the three further barriers on motivation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is research done on this. These are great questions. The candidate and the party absolutely matter. A secondary thing, though, where voter turnout went up where it hadn't before, was work that was done with intermediary organizations that had trusted relationships with peop

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree and I also think that in my remarks I tried to strengthen it further by arguing that they could actually be doing a better job. I think there have been some concerns articulated. Mr. Reid, who was here earlier, articulated some concerns about the advertising. I think if w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a terrific question. We run a program called Democracy Talks that works with young people and newcomers to Canada. We run focus group work with them. There are three things that come up on the motivation side that I think are deeper than what you can get at from some of the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They don't see voting as something that Canadians value. It's not introduced to people in citizenship. Often it's not taught well in schools, with the exception of Student Vote, and many people say their friends and family have never encouraged them to do it. That's one. Second

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct. In our submission, and also in my remarks, we had three recommendations on increasing citizen engagement and education, both during and in between elections. That would be done in non-partisan as well as multi-partisan ways. We do believe that political parties a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think I'd probably agree with everybody. There are some good aspects, but lots of opportunity for improvement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Agreed.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly. Thank you. My name is Alison Loat. As the chair said, I am the co-founder and executive director of Samara, which is an independent non-partisan charity that works to improve political participation through research and education. Today I'd like to suggest changes to