Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I remember correctly—and my colleague will correct me if I'm misleading the committee—there were roughly just under a million revised VICs that were issued at the last general election. These are VICs that are reissued to the elector because they've made a correction to their

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  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  Certainly in our case our number one priority is to make sure there is neither misinformation nor disinformation with respect to where, how, and when to register and to vote. One of the measures we are taking is that we will have a repertoire of all of our public communications o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's certainly the case that not all bots are dangerous. There are some positive uses for bots. I have not explored the possibilities of those positive bots in terms of fighting misinformation, but perhaps that is something we can explore.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I heard most of it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I did.