Mr. Speaker, there are rules in place to safeguard the vouching system.
However, unfortunately, according to Elections Canada's report, these rules were broken in 50,000 different instances during elections.
When it was revealed that there were 50,000 irregularities related to vouching, this is what the leader of the NDP said. “If we can’t even guarantee that the people who are voting are entitled to vote, and that can throw off the results of the elections, all is being lost”.
We agree, and that is why we are asking people to simply bring their choice of among 39 different forms of ID to prove who they are and where they live.