Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you require the recommendation from the Chief Electoral Officer, I'll have to consider whether I want to make it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At this stage, it's not what I'm recommending, but I'm not not recommending it either.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sir, would you look at the first three items on the sheet that was just handed out to you? If we're looking at fixed-date elections, we could use one month before the election to do targeted enumeration in the 1.4 million—or 1.8 million, if you want—homes and facilitate that process greatly, involving candidates who would have more time to do this at the time, and focus on the list, so that when the writs are dropped you would have a much better list.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I'm also saying, under chapter 2, to increase the ability to register through the income tax return for youth. They're all there.... I see the chairman waving at me to say shorten it. If you fix that problem, we will add 130,000 youth between 18 and 24 years of age, on a regular basis.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we're recommending that the Income Tax Act be a source for removing people from the list when they're deceased.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. There are lots of very good measures in there, sir, that would significantly improve it. On Thursday, at the meeting we've organized for you, if you have other ideas we'd be willing to see them incorporated here. There's a lot here that would significantly improve the list, the use of the list, and your satisfaction with it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you've been assigned a poll and have to be there at 8 or 7:30 in the morning, and the poll opens at 9:30 but you're supposed to vote at another poll, then the DRO will grant you the ability to vote in that poll so that you don't lose your right to vote just because you're an electoral worker.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, definitely not.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is exactly the point this recommendation aims at. We're saying, put in a separate question where people have to indicate, “I am a Canadian citizen”—yes or no—so that you have an affirmation that is prosecutable if it is falsified. The person would attest they are a Canadian citizen on the income tax form.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The first-class rate is used. That is what Canadian taxpayers pay in Canadian post offices.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the vast majority of cases...

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is one more.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'd like to reply to that, Mr. Chairman.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is why I brought them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, we will agree. In response to a question from Mr. Godin, I stated that I was willing to consider the possibility of allowing a box outside the polling station so that people wouldn't have to travel. So there is already a basis for agreement.