Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to make sure, and I'll look to Manon on this. In your scenario, the Prime Minister has not initiated the action to call the by-election. Am I understanding that correctly?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just what would apply.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and that's all I'm trying to answer for you. We can get back to you on this if you like, but my impression of it is that if the seat becomes vacant but the Prime Minister has not yet called the by-election, then once the legislation is in force, it's in force, and then it

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First, you're absolutely right about the technology part of it, and I think Elections Canada has thought of that. The information in the registry would be held by Elections Canada. Just to assure everyone, Elections Canada is behind the Government of Canada firewall and so has t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was an increase of about 10%, if I recall. I think it was just the level of— Do you know the number?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. I thought you did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was interest in the campaign, we believe.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The proposal in the legislation is to extend the hours of advance polling from nine to nine. It has more in mind, I think, to provide a little more flexibility to the adults who have day jobs. You're quite right. Advance polling has been a big success story in recent years in ge

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A couple of things in the proposed legislation address that issue. One of them is more flexibility on the part of Elections Canada to deploy their staff more effectively. There are a lot of hidebound rules in the current legislation; people can do some things but not others. The

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll just take a moment on the voter information card to say you're right that both students and seniors are least likely to have indications of residence, so the voter information card might be particularly important to those two groups. On the issue of further improving engage

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You'd need to talk to them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's been done before.