moved for leave to introduce Bill C-274, an act to amend the Canada Elections Act (electronic voting).
Mr. Speaker, back in 1994 I ran an electronic referendum in my riding using electronic touch tone voting. It came in for a lot of criticism at the time. However, in 1996 the Harris government wrote electronic voting into the elections act for Ontario and subsequently the city of North York carried out an electronic referendum in March of this year in which 152,000 people voted by touch tone telephone in five languages.
The time has come to amend the Canada Elections Act to permit Elections Canada to carry out some experiments with electronic voting.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)