Procedure and House Affairs committee  I heard most of it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think in terms of provisional ballots, the issue we have to keep in mind is...and I know it's something that exists in various jurisdictions and it's used for different purposes. In some jurisdictions it's used, for example, if there's no polling day registration. If you vote o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That raises the question of, if documentary proof of address is not available, how it would be available later on and whether the work on the returning officer would delay the count of the vote and the result. I must say, I do have some reservation. Until I see clearly how this

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That, I believe, was just very recently. I don't have a date on that, but that was.... My counsel advises that it must have been around Christmas.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've seen various iterations of that bill, so again, the time is a bit fuzzy. I must say that in terms of my suggestions today, some of them are more on the policy side, and I think it's more appropriate for me to make those recommendations to this committee than to the governmen

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is what I'm offering. I've been requested to provide more specific language on the privacy side because that language was more generic in style. The others are fairly specific, I think, in terms of what can be done. It refers to specific provisions and changes to be there, b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you're asking for an airtight regime, this is not it, I agree. This would deal with egregious attempts to deliberately circumvent the rules on foreign funding. If we're talking about just the mere fact that at some point in time some organization received foreign funding, and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, if this amendment were to go through, the person would have to have become a citizen on polling day in order to vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The risk, if you don't go that way, is that somebody would cast a ballot, for example through a special ballot, and that person is not a citizen because the ceremony was cancelled or the person was denied citizenship on security grounds, for example, and the ballot is cast.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We've never allowed that. This is not a new policy direction for the legislation. It's simply what I feel is incorrect content in a formal declaration.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll start with the last one. What we do know is that, from the labour force survey done by StatsCan at the last general election or after the last general election, 172,000 Canadians could not vote because of the voter identification requirements, including 50,000 who were turne

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The right to vote is the most fundamental expression of autonomy that we have in our political system. We hear that a lot from voters with disabilities. They want to not only vote but to vote independently. For them, it's a very important issue of dignity. That's part of their au

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Allowing a voting information card along with another piece of ID will allow many voters, who would otherwise require vouching or attestation under the current rules, to be able to go and vote and prove their residence without the need for assistance by somebody else.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right now, the only way people can vote at home is through a special ballot. These are people who cannot vote at their polling location and they're not able to vote at home independently. Through the special ballot rules, a poll worker comes with the returning officer and adminis