Evidence of meeting #124 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was election.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Well, half a sandwich is always better than no sandwich at all.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Can that amendment be made on the fly, Chair, through you to our clerks?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
So instead of “the same electoral district”, it would say “the same polling station”.
NDP
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
It's something. I appreciate it.
We'll have to amend that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Right. We're changing the words “electoral district” to “polling station”.
This just allows someone to vouch for someone who can vote at the same station, and it can be from different divisions that are located at that station.
Mrs. Kusie, go ahead.
Calgary Midnapore, CPC
Would a station ever have more than one riding in it? No? Okay.
Thank you.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Because this one applies to five other ones, Philippe is looking up the ramifications.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
We're ready to resume the meeting.
We'll go back to NDP-8 and the proposed amendment. It does have some ramifications, but I won't bother going through them all, because they're fairly administrative until we decide what's happening on this one.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Do you want me to get into Liberal-13 or just stick with NDP-8 for now?
Liberal
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Okay. As I just mentioned to colleagues across the table, as we sort of cast ahead, Maria on my team pointed out that, when we get down to vouching in the case of a nurse or a nurse's aide, in the situation where we have electors in a long-term care facility, Liberal-13 does not require them to be in the same electoral district; they can be in an adjacent electoral district. We just have to figure out the consistencies within the law. If Liberal-13 is going to be supported and passed, which I imagine it is, that sets a practice here where we have somebody vouching outside of the electoral district. We have to be careful that there is consistency. The concern is that the voucher be an actual voter.
How would Elections Canada handle that to verify that the person—in this case the nurse or nurse's aide or whatever—is an elector, even if they're not in the same electoral district? I don't want to get into LIB-13, but I just want this to be consistent, or at least somewhat consistent, across the board.
Liberal
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Well, you see how they're connected. I appreciate the amendment on this to get something, some progress, in terms of vouching without the constraints that exist right now. I just anticipate that the arguments need to be consistent. They don't need to be, but they ought to be. It's nice when they are.
NDP
