Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think so. I didn't think so when I was running the system. I was asked whether we should provide the stamps for something to come back from India, Bangladesh, the United States, or wherever. I said that people should bear their costs for doing that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As a separate entity from the register, to satisfy the ministers....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The former registration keeps being noted on the list. There's a list of former registrations that facilitates the re-registration of the person when they reapply.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If it's the same information, it's automatic. If they want to change addresses in Canada.... Let's say they move back to Canada for two years. An election is every four years in this country. They may move back, and then they may move back to Washington, D.C., if they get anothe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. The CEO doesn't write to you at your last address to ask if you're still there. You have to use the initiative to do that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I said was that a separate list should be prepared for voters abroad in order to meet the department's objectives, given that that seemed to be a concern. I figured there was no point in objecting to it, even though I couldn't see what the purpose of it was. Let's put toget

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those would be the two objectives I see for that separate list.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Certainly, the terminology is different. Once a person's name is removed from the list, that person has to go through the whole process to re-register all over again, instead of having their name stay on the list. I support the idea of having to re-register as a way to control

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Personally, I'm not familiar with that. But my sense is that the minister will likely want to review the definition to make it clearer. What's more, I was interested in the fact that certain pieces of identification used to prove an elector's identity and address could be proble

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Bill C-50 does it by having the Chief Electoral Officer gain access to information with the ministries of Employment and Immigration so that he can access the names of non-citizens.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it is. I don't view that as an intrusion in the private lives of people when they're seeking.... I will remind the committee, though, of something that was instituted because of concerns that were brought to this committee when I was Chief Electoral Officer. In every polling

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I produced a report to you, to Parliament, saying that the five-year ceiling should be lifted entirely. I also swore an affidavit to that effect in the case that went before the courts, where the courts upheld that at this stage. It's under appeal. Leave was not granted to withho

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The form of ID is not a concern. They've already produced their passport, so that's not the issue. It's proof of address that becomes the issue, and on the proof of address, as I've said, the only federal document is the VIC and I'm proposing that it be accepted for that purpose

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I forget, I think it was five, sir, and one federal referendum. I'm the only living Chief Electoral Officer who's run a federal referendum.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The other one was 1898—oh, and 1942, I think.