Procedure and House Affairs committee  I support, as you know, the previous changes because of this unbelievable plethora of identification, and I didn't even discuss utility bills. If you include utility bills—and all of us have utility bills with name and address—it explodes the number of identifications easily up i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I'm having trouble hearing you. Did you ask if I have difficulty with somebody having to—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. I mean—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. This is why I say over and over that I find this whole debate of the past year just astonishing. In every area of life we have to identify ourselves. If I go to talk to CRA, the revenue people, and say that I want to talk about my tax returns, they're not going to say sure an

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have thought about that. I've voted in every federal election since I turned 18. I voted first, I think, in the 1972 or 1974 election. I was always struck, way before this arose, with how loosey-goosey it was, if I could use slang English. They come to the door. “Are you a citi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You can use this passport at voting. I've used this at voting. I have brought my passport and voted in the past with it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It certainly does. It's on page 4. Please, everybody, read your own passport. It's on page 4.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've never been denied presenting my passport. I came into this building with my passport today, by the way.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll put it this way. If the act were amended so that when the enumerators go to the door, they ask you then for primary identification....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, whenever you get put on the list. Whether you go to them or they come to you, you should be producing primary identification to get on the voters list.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I argue everyone does.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Simms, let me answer this very quickly because I looked up something this morning before I came here. I didn't disclose this last time because I never thought to look it up. I thought to look at all the seniors, so I looked up CPP. I'm going to be applying in two or three ye

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's at 65. I have to bring two pieces of primary identification. Primary means government-issued, by the way. If we go back to that section that was being discussed earlier, proposed subsection 143(2.11), all that's doing is saying you have to bring official government ID as o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Some.