Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'd need to look at their findings, their research, their evidence in particular to see what's going on—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When I looked into this myself, I found that what happens is, as I said, there are some errors. In other words, in particular, the electoral register in the United States is far from what one might hope for in a professional electoral register. Part of the reason is that the elec

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thanks, Mr. Opitz. Again, there's been an enormous debate, as you know, in the last year about the issue of voter fraud and how extensive it is, so I'm drawing on some of the best research in the game. Lori Minnite has published an excellent book on the issue of electoral fraud.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would agree that there is a key communication role for all the reasons we've talked about. Of course, now it's through the social media, as well as through traditional media, where you have to get the information out to voters in real time and in a very timely fashion. Things l

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Every country needs to have money for campaigning, and campaign costs are really going up. So money itself I don't think is a problem. The problem is if it's not a level playing field. We know that as soon as you bring in private money, those established parties who already have

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, that's right. Again, in the United States, a lot of the initiatives at state level have been taking place because of the assumption of voter impersonation. It's not all types of fraud, but the idea is that somehow voters are going to vote twice, or somebody is going to come

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, I welcome that comment. I think it's absolutely right. There are two dangers. One is about public trust. If there's no consultation, if parties oppose the provisions, if the legislation doesn't work, then this is going to be a real problem for how far Canadians feel trust

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I could just chime in, again I'd very much welcome all those activities. There are standards for electoral management bodies, which are now put forward in the ACE project. It's an international thing for people who haven't run elections before in many countries, and again, pro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Mr. Christopherson. Essentially, Canada has a leading role in this. Through international development, Canada has always been promoting training, capacity-building, and democratization in many countries, whether it's Afghanistan or countries like Nigeria or Ghana. Many oth

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Preston. I'm honoured to contribute toward the deliberations of the Canadian Parliament on this important issue, and I thank the committee for inviting me. I want to make four sets of remarks: a bit of background, something about the standards that we're going to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's gorgeous. It's morning and it's 30 degrees centigrade. It's beautiful.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I know.