Human Resources committee  I have the same answer. In short, the answer is no, so I can't help you much on the substance of what you're looking for.

Human Resources committee  I don't see any problem with it whatsoever. I may be speaking a personal judgment, but I just can't see any problems with the authenticity of the documentation supplied by the funeral director. I hope Service Canada can enshrine the legitimacy of the process as well. If it requir

Human Resources committee  I've personally had experience with those many 800-number phone calls at the various government departments upon the passing of my parents a few years back. I did find the documentation from the funeral director to be helpful to quickly navigate that. I did not deal with a lawyer

Human Resources committee  I don't see that as a major challenge at all. I think they would be eager to be working cooperatively with the end product of what the implementation steps look like. Being astute professionals, they are going to be eagerly awaiting the outcome. I don't see any obstacles or delay

Human Resources committee  It would take implementation some study with the ministry to come up with that but I'm hoping the end product would be a quickly identifiable source of assistance and the forms clearly available online. I don't know that this would require extra staffing once the procedures are i

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and committee members. It's an honour to be here today to represent the National Pensioners Federation, of which I am past president. For those of you not familiar with the federation, it's in its 70th year now after being founded on the Prairies. It's a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, full disclosure, I've been a political activist for some 41 years now and a campaign manager, not a chair, three times at the federal level and three times at the provincial level.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I know, I'm getting to that. Anyway, my campaign experience is with the New Democratic Party and that's a straight answer. However, my views on Canadian values I think are shared by all political parties.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said earlier, we have an annual convention. We have a mandate on all kinds of issues. In fairness—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was talking of personal experience. In years gone by, I've been a campaign manager. After my retirement in 2008, I became the president of this federation. I'm now past-president. But certainly I ceased my campaign manager experience upon retirement. I no longer manage campaign

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's the independence of the institution of Elections Canada that's paramount here. The commissioner investigating irregularities or more serious alleged violations should indeed be as independent as possible from ministerial control. I think I made that point, but I think indepe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Very briefly, Mr. Chairman, you cited quite a number of organizations, bodies, experts, or whatever who've chipped in already. I think it's on the record and the committee is well aware of their comments. My comment would be, it will only have an impact when the governing-party

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's tempting to say we should be starting over, Mr. Chairman, but realistically, a significant list of amendments, I think, would probably find some degree of consent. I can't speak for the opposition parties in Parliament. They will decide on the quality of the amendments, if a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. On behalf of our federation, Mr. Chair, I would say that it is a must. We either believe in getting to the bottom of a wrongdoing or we don't. I would appreciate that those are fair questions for me as a witness here today, but I would love to hear the government members e

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Mr. Chairman. I would address the honourable member with the comment that I appreciate that in the 2011 election the voter identification cards had limited usefulness compared with the previous one. Nevertheless, many seniors like me have short memories and still rely on t