Procedure and House Affairs committee  We'll do an analysis as to how parties have done on the fundraising aspect since we've eliminated corporations and trade unions, and what the impact of the per-vote subsidy has been overall to their spending abilities.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it will, absolutely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It won't be until next March. We're in the process of it now.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. It's one of the challenges that all electoral administrators.... I've had extensive conversations with Elections Canada. It's an area we all struggle with because when someone automatically turns 18 sometimes the traditional means by which we get that information into our reg

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In Ontario, we have the Ontarians with Disabilities Act that we have to adhere to. We have standards that every voting location has to maintain. At Elections Ontario, many times, particularly in the rural areas that you speak of, we have to mitigate accessibility issues. Oftenti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not currently in Ontario's laws, no.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We definitely are going to do an impact analysis after this current election. This was the first cycle that we had a per-vote subsidy that we've provided. When the deliberation under Bill 2 happened and the government made the determination to eliminate corporations and unions f

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We saw a dramatic increase in advance polls. We had over 780,000 people vote in our five days of advance polls compared to 640,000 in 2014. It was a very healthy increase. A number of factors went into that. We moved to a spring election. We had longer daylight hours. There was a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We saw a 58% turnout. We had just over 5.7 million Ontarians vote. That represented about a 7.5% increase from where we were in 2014. We saw a very healthy increase this election in voter turnout.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We did this election. We had a very active engagement and outreach program in Ontario. There are 50 college and university campuses. We were on all 50. We were on them six months before the election doing pre-registration drives. We launched an e-registration tool this election w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We had an extensive social media campaign; we started two years ago. I'm a big believer that we need to have more frequent communication in particular on social media, on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Our goal was to ensure we were the factual representative of th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. The changes in Bill 45 did provide us with the ability to establish a future voters registry of 16- to 17-year-olds. We did work with our outreach teams. We worked with CIVIX and some of the other outreach initiatives that we have in place for the el

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We did our pilots in both Whitby—Oshawa, and Scarborough—Rouge River. When I wrote to the legislators, we were very transparent. We believed going into the election that we would only put technology in where we knew it would work. We had our returning officers do a review of al

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We are currently doing that. We effectively go through all 124 ridings here in Ontario and we do a complete audit. We look at every aspect. We look at the official returns; we recalculate them. We recount hand ballots, and we recount tabulator ballots by hand. We're in the pr