Agreed.
An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (verification of residence)
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.
Peter Van Loan Conservative
This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.
This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.
This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act to allow an elector or voucher who provides a piece of identification that does not prove his or her residence to use that piece of identification to prove his or her residence provided that the address on the piece of identification is consistent with information related to the elector or voucher that appears on the list of electors.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-18s:
Canada Elections ActGovernment Orders
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Accordingly, the bill stands referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
(Motion agreed to, bill read the second time and referred to a committee)