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Procedure and House Affairs committee  As Mr. Lukiwski touched on earlier, in Saskatchewan, we still have enumeration within every electoral event. We do not have a permanent register of electors. There was mention of it in the past, but it's still not there. We do not have identification of voters in Saskatchewan, un

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's purely guesswork. Shopping malls are where the youth are. You can certainly reach some of these individuals there. In terms of grocery stores, for example, having a fairly rural province, some of the farmers from the outlying communities will do their groceries in the cities

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Wherever you can imagine placing them, I will place them. In this particular election, we had people, who were almost in tears, calling us to put them in universities. I had to say I am sorry, I can only put them in universities for the individuals who are living in a residence a

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As indicated in my presentation, I'm not a scholar, so I won't speculate. It was 76%; the previous general election was 70.95%; the previous one was 65%; the one before that was, again, 63%; and then before that, in 1991, we had 82% or 83%. The Saskatchewan people do vote, they'

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I must apologize, I don't.

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be speculating. I think there is such a thing as voter fatigue, and it also depends when the election takes place. I'm a believer in fixed election dates, and that will certainly help people plan, and you now have that federally. That may help. If you look at the muni

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're very correct that the candidate's representative, and the runners as well--those people who will go and get the vote out--are an element that is required in the system. That's the check and balance you have to have. It is very difficult. Is it money that will get the peo

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. I believe there will be some benefits to be drawn from it, because many times if one intends to vote on election day one does not plan to be away on election day. But there could be instances where in fact they have a death in the family or whatever, so if they have that extr

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would like to make one brief observation on the subject of election workers. In fact, we share our provincial workers, that is, they are the same people as the ones who do the work at the federal and municipal levels. However, they mix up the rules to be applied. They apply the

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With respect to the length of travel, one of the problems with the advance poll federally is that you have advance districts. So x number of polls would go to a particular advance poll versus something that may be closer to home, particularly in rural areas. Because there's a r

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. You vote with a write-in ballot or you can have some of those kiosk vote-ins where you have electronic voting. You select your constituency or your electoral district and then your list of candidates comes up versus the next person with the next list. Sunday is somew

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a lot of things in play. The reason why we have the same problems we might talk about in terms of election workers is that we have fewer and fewer workers available to do this work, particularly in the West. In the past, we had a lot of seniors or people who had a sens

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, I am accompanied today by David Wilkie, the Assistant Chief Electoral Officer of Saskatchewan. I am Jean Ouellet, the Chief Electoral Officer of Saskatchewan. Before I begin my remarks, I would certainly like to thank the members

November 29th, 2007Committee meeting

Jean Ouellet