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Procedure and House Affairs committee It's attesting to residence.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee It says, “I”--the person who administers the shelter--“know this person, and I can confirm that he or she resides here.”
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee The letters we were referring to are, for example, letters we would get from a shelter administrator providing proof of address for homeless people. They are just used as proof of residence if those people need to register on polling day. So they are not vouched for in the sense that they've provided identification--a health card perhaps--saying this is who they are.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee No, it was actually in the by-elections.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee One of the things we should make clear is that under the current statute you can only vouch for one person. I just want to make that clear, because I know we've seen some testimony that kind of raises that question.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee We ran two by-elections recently in Repentigny and London North Centre. We wanted to track how often vouching occurred. In London North Centre about 2,800 people actually registered on polling day. The numbers we got back showed that a little over 100 people were vouched for across the riding, and there were basically one or two at each poll.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee When it comes to cross-tabulations, we've done cross-tabulations of counts. We don't have access to census data with names on it, so we haven't done those kinds of cross-tabulations. In maintaining the national register of electors, we measure the quality of the list by comparing it to those census numbers.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes. We've had an agreement since the register was established in 1997 with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. There is a tick box on the citizenship application form such as we have on the income tax form. Some 94% of new Canadians consent to that. What happens is that a couple of years later, when they receive citizenship, that information is transmitted to us by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee Because they haven't consented to the transfer of that information, we don't get it.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee I don't think we have. There is also the option for these electors, just as any other elector, to tick the yes box on their income tax form. Once we have that information, we could write to them, and if they confirm their citizenship, we could add them. Of course with the proposed legislation, with the additional tick box for confirming citizenship, we would be able to add them directly.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar
Procedure and House Affairs committee Thank you. We should separate the issues. The equipment we need to replace in the summer is the hardware and software we use in the field during an election. The data we provide at the start of an election actually comes from headquarters. At the start of the election, we take the list we maintain centrally between elections, and we basically chop it up into 308 pieces and ship it to the individual returning officers.
December 7th, 2006Committee meeting
Rennie Molnar