Finance committee  I'm sorry. I see.

Finance committee  It's an excellent question, and I've been asked it several times: Am I not contradicting myself? My response has been the following. Every major poll I've looked at over my adult lifetime in Canada—I've lived here all my life—shows that support by Canadians runs literally 85% t

Finance committee  Okay. I will slow down a bit then. Let's just drill into those numbers—the 10% to 20%. We know that they are not poor, to use very blunt, direct English, and we know that they are not old, i.e., over 65—nobody should be offended; I'm not and I'm over 65. We know that because the

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the finance committee for inviting me. First, here are my disclosures, because I'm an individual: I don't consult directly or indirectly with any corporation, association, NGO, union, government or person anywhere. Second, I don't have any investme

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm answering; I'm not ducking your question at all. I do not believe that the voter registration card—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't believe they can be made secure. I have had voter registration cards. I've been voting for a long time. I just turned 65 this year and I've never missed a single provincial or federal election. Every time I've had one of the cards, I've thought, my God, this is a really c

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm saying it isn't very thorough. It is not up to the standards of Service Canada. It's not up to the standards of the other databases of the Government of Canada. It certainly doesn't meet the standards of our passport security system, which is very strong. All I'm saying is th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you'd asked me that 10 or 15 years ago, I probably would have said yes. Today, I've become much more of a stickler on the idea of due process. I really believe in one rule for everybody, not one rule for the students who I've developed a friendship with because they've sought

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Equally, fairly, and objectively.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, because of students saying you're starting to create favourites and playing games—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —and that's what I meant by the integrity of the system. It's very easy today to be challenged. Authority can be challenged by someone saying that you're playing games, you're making special rules, because—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was hoping someone was going to ask this question of me, thank you. I'm very familiar with the registrar's office, which, as you may or may not know, are present in every university and college.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let me finish.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the registrar's offices that I'm familiar with, and I'm pretty sure they're pretty standard, we must have an address. We will not register a student who will not provide an address, and they provide the address where they're living, on-campus or off-campus. Our students are al

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that's a much more fair point. I don't agree with the first point. The second point is, there is an education process needed by Elections Canada to educate people, and not just about voting. There are people who don't know what they have to do to go apply for Canada pensi