Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's only part of the answer, because—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Would that portion be effective? Not unless there's motivation backing it, so that people want to find out how to vote.... If you don't make that first leap, you're not going to do the extra mile to find out.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I can start with that one. The question is extremely wide. Obviously, we're seeing something that's international not just here in Canada. A lot of factors are at play including, for example, youth poverty, youth unemployment, and youth education levels. More people are goi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's unfortunately something I can't really comment on because of the nature of my organization.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll start by going back to the previous question and then answer this one as well. There's something that I can mention with regard to the voter information cards. We found a survey by EKOS that suggested 72% of the people who were allowed to use the VIC as proof of identifica

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The most important part when it comes to figuring out if something worked or not—the cost-effectiveness—is the partnerships with the electoral agencies. I'll give you an example. Recently, in 2013, we partnered with Elections Canada and Elections BC, to do a registration drive in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We talk about accessibility and we talk about motivation. This card tries to do both. On one side, we're giving arguments as to why people should vote, and why their vote matters, and on the other side we're obviously trying to create all the mechanisms that are needed for

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's been two weeks. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, this is a first. I'm enjoying it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much for having me here. I am Dr. Youri Cormier and I'm the executive director at Apathy is Boring. Apathy is Boring is a national youth-led non-partisan charitable organization that has been working to educate Canadian youth about democracy since 2004. In keep