Procedure and House Affairs committee   Fahmy. Madam Fahmy, you are going to go first, please, with your opening statement, in five minutes or less.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Hello everyone. As the chair of the committee mentioned, my name is Miriam Fahmy and I am the Director of Research at the Institut du Nouveau Monde, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that is based in Montreal. Its mission is to increase and support citizen

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, award-winning Canadian journalists have been imprisoned in Egypt for three months, and now Mohamed Fahmy's trial is again delayed, meaning more weeks in an Egyptian jail for this Canadian. I am sure that the minister would agree with the NDP that targeting

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, sadly, it has now been two months since Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and two other colleagues were arrested in Egypt. They are now on trial for being journalists. Egypt's crackdown on press freedom is clearly unacceptable, and it is time for Canada to take

Citizenship and Immigration committee   of terrorism under the Criminal Code, it's very broad. It includes funding, giving money, giving a donation. For example, right now we see Mohamed Fahmy, the journalist, who is in Egypt in jail. He would be caught under these provisions. He's been charged with terrorism in Egypt for helping

Citizenship and Immigration committee   be applied. All you have to do is equate these to Canadian law—under which, as I said, Mr. Fahmy's charges would be equatable to a Canadian charge under our legislation—and you're caught by the legislation. Once again, the minister may have a hearing or may not. I said I would discuss

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously, if a young person—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is the question for me? The member didn't indicate if the question was for me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You want to know if the Institut du Nouveau Monde would like to contact Elections Canada to recommend that it increase the number of pieces of ID? Is that correct?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I said earlier, Institut du Nouveau Monde makes recommendations about civic and public education and tries to get young people and the general public interested in voting. Institut du Nouveau Monde does not deal with technical issues associated with identification. I did not t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the recommendation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I'm going to answer it the exact way I did last time you asked the question, but maybe by answering it in English it might be clearer. There are two reasons why youth don't go out to vote. One is logistical, and you've laid out the reasons and some of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question is specifically for Ms. Fahmy. Over time, Elections Canada has adopted various measures and you have proposed ideas that I find very interesting to promote first-time voting. I really liked your presentation because it is true that studies

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree with you. As I said in my speech, all the measures are good for bringing out the youth vote. As you know, when voter turnout is low, the entire process becomes invalid. Voter turnout will continue to decrease, based on current trends. That's why it's very important to tal

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ms. Fahmy, I want to pick up where we left off. I ran out of time on that last part that I wanted to discuss with you. I appreciate that you indicated specifically that university students weren't necessarily your expertise, but obviously, in encouraging people to be a part