Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think you'd have to accept that if somebody is very determined--

Procedure and House Affairs committee  --to be fraudulent, you're going to have to have recourse to the Government of Canada and the law to alter things like that. I would suggest that certainly in most cities and with students, there are recognized bodies. One of the great successes of Anglican services in Ottawa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree. I think it could move the process forward in a simpler way.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be a mix. In regard to some of the comments earlier about the lines being a little bit fudged, and the government is in the business of putting in a good election process, I agree with that, but I think it is very much our job and it is expected of us to get the word o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would actually agree. I don't think it's particularly helpful. People who live in poverty or are the working poor have a great deal of pressure in their lives. They often move or have to change jobs to maintain living wages, where they can. Youth have to move to wherever they

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I would understand any government would be concerned about fraud in any election process. To make sure things like that don't happen, Canada has travelled all over the world to supervise elections in much more critical circumstances than we have in a sophisticated western so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, adding on to what Mary-Martha has been able to say, is it not possible for organizations, say like mine, to have someone make an application prior to an election to ask for some kind of standing at an election? I have a community that goes across two wards or two ridings. I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and committee members, for inviting me here today. As the executive director of the Debra Dynes Family House, which is a multi-service resource in a low-income social housing area in Ottawa, and chair of the Coalition of Community Houses, which pr