moved for leave to introduce Bill C-308, an act to amend the Canada Elections Act (polling stations in hospitals).
Mr. Speaker, today I would also like to introduce a private member's bill entitled an act to amend the Canada Elections Act, polling stations in hospitals).
Although in the current act, section 138, there is a provision for elections to be held in a sanitarium, a home for the aged, a chronic
care hospital or a similar institution for the care and treatment of tuberculosis and other chronic diseases, nothing in the act gives patients in hospitals an opportunity to vote.
Apparently this service is already provided but there is no indication of it in the elections act. I would therefore like to introduce a bill that would ensure all patients in hospitals during an election have the same privileges as all Canadians.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)