We write to the persons who check off that box and offer them the opportunity of writing back to us by simply posting the letter back saying they want to be added to the list. However, as with everything else, we have a 20% return rate for those who should be answering, and therefore we could be significantly improving—should the recommendation that I've made be approved changing the Income Tax Act—because this is the main means of adding youth to the list. Youth are notorious for not responding to the mail that we send, but if they bother to check the two boxes “I am a Canadian citizen” and “I do wish to share the information to be added to the list”, that would simplify greatly adding youth to the list. It is the main means we have under the system now. Otherwise we're caught having to reply to them.
On April 27th, 2006. See this statement in context.