Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly, a person can only swear to the identity of one other person.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That may very well be. That may be what happened. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but I know it wasn’t widespread.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would like to examine this with the returning officer, because it concerns me.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I would like to be present when the Quebec election office representative is invited.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will send Ms. Diane Davidson to attend the session. On a more serious note, it is important to examine this issue. I would like to be present at this presentation, if there is to be a discussions on how things will be done at the polling station. I consider that to be very imp

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I alluded to this in my earlier response, but not as directly as I could have. This was based on the fact that under the Quebec model.... This is the only jurisdiction in Canada that has bingo cards, as Mr. Guimond has defined it, to the best of my knowledge. They h

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It should not cost anything more.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, Mexico has an alphanumeric card with photo, with fingerprint, with signature. It cost $1 billion to institute, to install it in Mexico. Brazil has something similar. We've just come back from Panama. They held a referendum over the weekend. They have the same thing.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The unique identifier is designed to follow the voter so that we, and the candidates from all the parties, can follow the voter and make sure it is the same voter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From one election to the other, permanently. In other words, there would be one unique number for each person.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With respect to people in hospitals on polling day, the law is clear. For visitors or patients, there is no poll in a hospital. These people would have to have signified that they wanted to vote and stated where they were from. There's no poll in a hospital, which is a short-term

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have not seen proof of this. I've read the report, and apparently there were people who came here to testify from parties and they said that they had instances of this. Whenever I hear this, I tell people to provide me with the particulars of those instances, but they do not. I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The remarks I made were meant to stimulate exactly the discussion that you're precipitating by your comments. I think it's going to be very important for people to understand that when there are no pieces of ID that are available there will have to be an oath and they will have t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Frankly, it's the concern of the committee, more than mine. These are not recommendations that I made about serial vouching, even though I can see the sensitivity of that issue, and neither is double voting a concern of mine.