Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 64th meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. The first hour of the meeting will be televised.
Today we are continuing our study of the Chief Electoral Officer’s report entitled “An Electoral Framework for the 21st Century: Recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Following the 42nd General Election”, with a specific focus on recommendations B12, publishing false statements to affect election results, and B27, foreigners inducing electors to vote or refrain from voting. If people want to raise other items with the commissioner while we have him here, or if he wants to raise items, I'm sure that's fine.
In order to assist us in our deliberations, we are joined today by Yves Côté, the Commissioner of Canada Elections, and Marc Chénier, general counsel and senior director of the Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections.
Welcome, and thank you for coming here. This will be very helpful.
The commissioner has distributed his remarks to all of you, so you have them in writing.
I will now turn the floor over to the commissioner for his opening statement.