Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will be glad to discuss it further.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I counted five questions.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We strongly encourage returning officers to meet with party representatives, be they MPs, candidates, or representatives from constituency associations. I will check to see if the process has been followed, but I understood that MPs had been consulted about revisions to polling d

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The notes deal with office space for the returning officers. Polling stations as such have still to be confirmed.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have no objection to that at all. I am telling you that I support the idea.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As regards preliminary preparations given Bill C-31, I do not know if I have any more time to talk about it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can say that very, very preliminary work has been done. I have to point out that none of the training given to elections staff up to now to prepare for a vote that could take place at any moment refers to C-31 because we do not have the final text. Senate consideration has just

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have a firm date.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would like to discuss it with the advisory committee of political parties, which will take place in June. To me, there's no great urgency to close that list until the bill comes through the Senate, but I think it's good to start thinking about this matter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have various initiatives to validate the information on the registry. From that validation, I don't know that we can draw this as fraud. If there's incorrect information or—There may be a whole series of explanations for variations in information in the registry. One thing I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I haven't seen any evidence of systemic fraud.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is a suggestion that we could consider. It is not something that we are presently discussing. You just brought it up this morning.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe. I will discuss it, weigh the pros and cons, and consider any other factors that may need to be taken into account. It is certainly something that we could consider.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. With me today are Mrs. Diane Davidson, who is the deputy chief electoral officer and senior legal counsel at Elections Canada; Mrs. Janice Vézina, who is the executive director of political financing and corporate services; and