moved for leave to introduce Bill C-279, an act to amend the Canada Elections Act (electronic voting).
Mr. Speaker, this bill would amend the Canada Elections Act by permitting electronic voting and recognizes that the technology of today puts many tools at our beck and call and one of them could be used for voting.
The bill provides for electronic voting by touch tone telephone as an alternative to casting a written ballot. Those wishing to vote electronically would still be enumerated and would apply to vote electronically. Having done so, they would be given a PIN number and then could vote electronically using their touch telephone.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)