Procedure and House Affairs committee  There would still be a requirement of public knowledge, so they'd have to show--

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What's difficult to show is public acceptance. The fact that his name is known is something that can be shown; whether it's accepted publicly is something that's more difficult.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You will have to prove, with some document, that you are known publicly under that nickname.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The difficulty is that some people in good faith are of course known under a name that is different from their actual name. It would be difficult to require them to abandon the name that they are well known under as they run for candidacy.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, it's largely difficult to define public recognition; people will have to provide examples of newspaper clippings where their nickname is used or other information that could show this, whether it's correspondence in which they're known by that nickname.... It's a bit diffic

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The returning officer will ask for the information to show public knowledge and acceptance.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, both provisions, the French and English, have to be read together. Also, this is administered locally, so we're not necessarily always involved on how the decisions are made for accepting a nickname or not. Variances may result.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We haven't seen any significant abuse. The concern is to avoid people ridiculing the electoral process by inventing names out of the blue, so there has to be some measure of control over this.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I may add to this one issue, a source of a lot of burden is dealing with the unpaid claims after the election, so that's one area we are looking to streamline, the requirements on reporting for unpaid claims.