Procedure and House Affairs committee  Dan McDougall, director of operations with legislation and House planning of the Privy Council Office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm Dan McDougall from the Privy Council Office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At the time of voting, the issue would be exactly the same: if there were privacy concerns with respect to both date of birth and address at the time of voting, they would apply equally. The issue here is that we were talking about the distribution of a list. That's one step remo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have a couple of comments. First, the structure of the Canada Elections Act is in effect slightly different from the structure of the Quebec Election Act. There are explicit provisions for protection of personal privacy in the Quebec Election Act. The Canada Elections Act actu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Indeed, that may be the point, that if no one ever brings a challenge against it, then there would be no reason for anyone to look at it, whether or not it is constitutionally consistent with the charter. What we're doing here, however, is creating a new provision. As we're look

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As a point of clarification, Mr. Chair, we're not trying to delve into new policy areas here. We have been providing our advice in the context of the recommendations that were made by the committee and the response of the government to that report. It was the committee itself, in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  But not exclusively through this statute.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We think this could be one of the items indicated in the previous motion that was discussed, with respect to the proposed subsection 143(2.1) that was within it. This would be one of those pieces of ID that would qualify.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We think it would be essentially a “for greater certainty” clause. As I mentioned, we think this piece of ID is already one of the pieces that are authorized by the bill. This, with the amendment proposed, would make it clear—for greater certainty, in effect—that this is indeed o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is just a point of clarification. I think the language proposed on the subamendment should read “for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)” rather than “subsection (2)(b)”. The subsection is (2), and the further delineation would be the paragraph.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would read, “For the purposes of paragraph 2(b)” rather than “subsection”.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would also have to have the address of the person on it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm Dan McDougall, director of operations with legislation and House planning at the Privy Council Office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In effect, this is a consequential amendment to a subsequent amendment, which appears later. The principle is established later on, and this would be a consequential amendment to that. It does come earlier in the package, though, but it relates to transparency provisions, so what

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.