Procedure and House Affairs committee  Hello. I'm Natasha Kim, from Privy Council Office—senior policy analyst.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Bill C-6.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In effect, that's true, but that's assuming there is no ID, including the two pieces that could be authorized by the CEO.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The drafting in the bill was actually fairly deliberate. It's put in the negative because these sections, sections 146 to 148, deal with various eventualities or issues that may occur when you're on the list--for example, your name corresponds with another very closely, and that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under the act as it exists now, there's no requirement to have ID or to swear an oath or to have someone vouch for you in order to vote. Perhaps what the Chief Electoral Officer was referring to was the registration stage. At that stage you need to take a oath and have a voucher

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be a different approach.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This provision deems to raise two technical issues. One, which was raised earlier, was that on the proof of identity as prescribed in regulations, there are currently no regulations under the Canada Elections Act and no regulation-making authority. The second operational issue is

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The main difference is where a person would be registered. Amendment G-6 specifies that it would occur when someone is being registered at their home, whereas amendment NDP-3 doesn't. So that could happen at a returning office or somewhere else.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Their use would effectively be subject to their own provincial laws on privacy protection. The CEO himself would be restricted by the federal Privacy Act. So we use that statutorily.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To an extent we're clarifying and, in that sense, making it easier for the federal electoral body and the provincial electoral bodies to share information so that their electoral lists are updated.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This provision actually deals with the information that's derived from the national register, which already includes the date of birth in it, so provincial electoral authorities also use the date of birth in terms of matching proper electors to ensure that they're updating the ri

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No is the short answer.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Chief Electoral Officer would still be subject to the federal statutes that protect privacy information, as would provincial electoral authorities be subject to their own provincial statutes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's definitely correct. What this provision was meant to do is implement the committee's recommendation at 2.19, and the purpose of that was to address the drafting in the current act at subsection 55(3), which both the committee and the Chief Electoral Officer recommended b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chair, it's just that BQ-3 addresses the identifier with the “if any”, which in carrying G-2 before would consequentially.... I think BQ-5 reflects that consequential amendment to make the identifier mandatory. So just in terms of drafting--