Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would just like to clarify two technical points in the debate. First, no by-election could be triggered to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons less than nine months before a fixed-date election. However, a vacancy that occurred shortly before the deadline would result in a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just to confirm, Mr. Nater, the effect of this motion would be to revert back to status quo upon...?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The frontier between polling divisions can be in the middle of the street, and you could very well try to vouch for the person who lives in front of you but if you're not in the same....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of your motions, which was amended to say “polling station”, would now allow the person to be vouched for if the voucher is on the list for the same polling station. That being said, there are two other sets of provisions that would restrict it, which now create an inconsiste

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One is located in the proposed new part 11.1 of the act, which talks about the prohibitions related to voting. This provision has already been passed, so this is something that will need to be fixed. Now we are in the provision about the solemn declarations, so one of the state

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Probably at report.... I cannot predict what will happen in Parliament's proceeding. The second inconsistency is the one we are dealing with now, the one that is found at proposed paragraph 549.1(2)(a).

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly. In electoral law, in practice, a polling division is a geographical area. A polling station is a place. You cannot reside in a polling station, so we need to massage the language a little bit to refer to the geographical area itself.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would need to say “the other elector resides in a polling division associated with the polling station”. Then there was another Liberal motion related to vouching in long-term care facilities that has already amended that line.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was with slightly different language to accommodate for the special mechanism that was created for long-term care facilities.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, my colleague Trevor would like to say something.