Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, let me say first that we've been doing elections since 1960. That's when we got the vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It got better and better as the years went by. For the longest time nobody would vote. Now educated people vote, but the elders and older people still don't vote because they don't understand.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They are normally the people who have a driver's licence and cards with pictures.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It should.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Three types of cards are floating around. On one there's no ID and no expiry date. The newer one I have has a photo, but it doesn't have security. The new cards that are coming out are like a driver's licence. They've got a bar strip that has information on it. The newer one seem

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I should check my card, but I think it's every five years now. Before it didn't change.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't. I can tell you the majority are young people. We have a young population and our elders are getting older and passing on. As far as the numbers, I couldn't tell you. The communities probably have a better handle on that. I think it would be fairly easy to phone and a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  About 300.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My answer would be not necessarily, especially if people have left or moved off reserve and all their extended families have not necessarily done the paperwork to provide the information.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In our case, our people have status cards. There are three versions floating around. One is an old one with no expiry date. We have one now that has a picture and an expiry date. I know the government is working on a multi-purpose card. Maybe for us that's the way to go. It's als

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of the tools that may be used is a registry. There's a registration of every member from that community who is registered under what they call the Indian registry. You could cross-check the registry with people in the know, the chief and the council, since they—if you want to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I raise it as a possibility. But in terms of language, we have people who don't have a good handle on the English or the French language, but that doesn't mean they can't read. They read syllabics. They learned to write in their own language. We've had people come fro

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The only comment I would make is on fixed elections. Our elderly don't really understand the system all that well to begin with. When you're dealing with a situation of having a set date and the situation that we have now, where elections may be called any time, I think it causes