Mr. Speaker, I would like confirmation from the hon. member. A byelection will take place in my riding in Ontario on February 8. This is provincial byelection and therefore does not affect us but it does relate to us. I have received a number of calls from individuals telling me that when they went to the polling booths they were not asked for any ID or their voting card. They were only asked who they were and their name was checked off the list and they voted.
This bill, in my view, would prevent that from happening. Individuals would at least need to show ID.
I want to make it is absolutely clear and put it on the record that the member who spoke to this and the New Democratic Party support the need for individuals who are exercising their right to vote to show a form of ID or have a person vouch for who they are so that people who do not live in the riding or people using the names of people who have, unfortunately, passed on are not voting in our elections and determining the outcome without the proper authority to be a participant in that election.