Procedure and House Affairs committee  I certainly appreciate the question. I don't disagree with you. I don't think it's an either/or option, though. For me, it's not clear why we can't work on the other social exclusion issues that result in first nations not participating, and at the same time not put up new barrie

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The information card.... Thank you very much. I don't know why we can't do both, sir. It's not clear to me that we can't do both.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With respect to the vouching as linked, I'm not sure of the nature of the areas you're referring to. I simply know that on first nation communities, similar with the vouching as it is with the voter information cards, that they are useful tools. They're useful tools given the hou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely, we did view the ability to use the voter information card as being a positive experience. In the last election, we contacted directly 313 first nations to inform them of the various ways to vote, and that was an important tool that was utilized. In preparation

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My status card does not have an address on it. If that's the only photo ID I have, I wouldn't be able to vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously, thank you for the question. I think proposed section 18 should be, in our view, amended, or frankly, removed. As we know, as the Chief Electoral Officer said in his testimony and as he has provided information around, it imposes severe limits on the ability to commun

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First off, I think the primary difference that we see in the change of section 18, of course, is the lack of proactive outreach and the lack of being able to research, particularly voting patterns, and the identification of groups who participate. That would seem to me to be the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't have it in front of me, obviously, if we're going to quote it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was the National Association of Friendship Centres.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. First, I'm not familiar with the study you quote from, but it certainly sounds reasonable. You can slice aboriginal participation many different ways—on and off-reserve, for first nations people. Of course, Métis and Inuit will have their own unique

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for inviting us to appear here today on unceded Algonquin territory. My name is Peter Dinsdale. I am a member of Curve Lake First Nation and acting chief executive officer of the Assembly of First Nations. I am joined by Karen Campbell, our director of policy; Tonio Sa