Electoral Reform committee  I don't have enough information to say yes or no.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly.

Electoral Reform committee  The communities I worked in for the first time lived in poverty, for whatever reason. I knocked on so many doors. They said to me, “Why should I vote? What can they do for me? Everybody is the same.” It's really hard to try to convince people why they should vote. There were some

Electoral Reform committee  I think everybody should know why it's important to vote. I don't know why we don't have it in our school systems, because it's something that we all have to do when we become old enough to vote. On the reserves we don't talk about it. Why would we talk about it, because our vote

Electoral Reform committee  I think that's a good start. I really do. I think that would show that their voices do matter.

Electoral Reform committee  Knowing that a vote will count.... Even now, I live in a community where I am probably a minority. I live in Charleswood. I vote NDP, although if I put up a sign on my lawn, I am swamped by all the Conservative signs. I know that when I vote, my vote is not going to count in my o

Electoral Reform committee  When it was made more complicated in this last round of elections, with the different identification you had to have to prove who you were, it kind of fed into that not caring about our vote. How do you make it better? I guess setting up systems with better places where they can

Electoral Reform committee  I do think it is a good idea, but you also have to keep in mind that it gets complicated again because of our different nationalities. I am Dakota. There are Cree, Ojibwa, and so on. Then you have to figure out how to make that work.

Electoral Reform committee  Hi. My name is Gina Smoke. I'm a Unifor representative and of aboriginal descent. I'm here on behalf, I guess, of both Unifor and the aboriginal community. I grew up on a reserve knowing what it's like to be a minority, having difficulties in trying to vote, and still seeing th