Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Oct. 8th, 2009

[Marc Mayrand]

I may ask my colleague to deal with this more specifically, but basically it's on the reporting side, the timelines, the need to go to court for getting authorization to file after the expiration. There are also some issues regarding audit requirements that at times are not absolutely necessary. I'm not talking here of the basic audit, but for supplementary reports, or each time you change your report you're supposed to have another audit. We don't think it's necessary.

They are changes of that nature.

[Stéphane Perrault, Senior General Counsel and Senior Director, Legal Services, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer]

If I may add to this one issue, a source of a lot of burden is dealing with the unpaid claims after the election, so that's one area we are looking to streamline, the requirements on reporting for unpaid claims.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Thank you all for your cooperation in trying to get through this for one o'clock.

Monsieur Mayrand, there are just a couple of questions. We spent no time at all on the Referendum Act today, and I know you are looking to try to finish it up. I'd like to ask if we can have you back for just that purpose at some time soon, because I know you want to move it forward. Maybe we should schedule the next appropriate day, and I'll leave that for your schedulers to do.

Monsieur Guimond asked for a list of the new advance polls you are looking at, so I know you will supply that to the committee.

I thank you for the rest of your thoughts today. Hopefully we were able to accomplish what we wanted to on H1N1 and on some of the other stuff. When we have you back to talk about the riveting matter of referendums, if there is something else on our mind you will also let us speak to that.

All right, is there anything else for the good of the committee today?

Thank you to the witnesses.

This meeting is adjourned.