Procedure and House Affairs committee  I certainly could.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would comment that the statutory declaration would be quite helpful to the homeless population.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I understand the difficulty the committee is facing in trying to ensure that all citizens can vote but at the same time ensuring that people aren't voting more than once, and that people who are not supposed to be voting don't vote. I totally understand that. I don't entirely hav

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're vouching for them, saying that they are Canadian citizens. We may have seen their identification in previous times. As the gentleman said earlier, they have ID, and it gets lost or it gets stolen, or they move and it gets lost in the process. So we have seen ID before, but

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not sure. I don't work in a shelter. I know that there is a standardized intake form that is put into a database called HIFIS, which was developed through CMHC and is used across the country. I'm not sure if that is one of the questions on that database. So I can't really ans

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would agree. I would support such a motion. I would not just refer to homeless and students. There are other populations that may have similar challenges and barriers to being enumerated, and you would need to consider the breadth of those communities, such as the aboriginal co

Procedure and House Affairs committee  When I say we educate about the candidates, I mean we bring the candidates into the centre and provide opportunities for the whole range of candidates in the riding to present their positions to the community.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, only it's not all together.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What we do is bring them in one at a time and give them an opportunity to make a presentation and engage in discussion, which provides people with an opportunity to learn about the different candidates.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Who are you asking? Anyone?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Definitely, there is a line across which you shouldn't go, and coercion of any vote at any level of government is totally inappropriate. Our role at the centre is to educate people about the process of voting and also to present before them the candidate so they have an opportuni

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is one of the things we have been engaging in at the centre.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've been doing it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, we've been doing it in partnership with Elections Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Elections Canada and the centre have been working together over the last nine years to try to engage more people in the homeless community in the election process. The voting rate is very low in that population, and we want to increase it. Some people have ID and some people do