Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct. There is a percentage of upfront reimbursement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Because of the uniqueness of the last election, because the spending limit was pro-rated to the length of the election and those spending limits were so high, first, very few candidates spent to that limit, and second, many candidates got an initial reimbursement—which is designe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is no perfect solution to that. As you know, the limit on the prohibition on disclosure of the results was lifted by Parliament because there was no way to contain the results.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, the Supreme Court validated the previous rule, but the rule was lifted by Parliament.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Now the information flows. There is some staggering of the voting hours.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You get to a point where if you increase the staggering of the voting hours, that creates some unevenness in terms of voting opportunities. If you sit on the results for too long, people are suspicious, and they're—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The average age of our poll workers is quite high. These are people who work 16-hour days—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —and in many cases, I would call it cruel and unusual to extend the counting hours beyond what they already are.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. It's my pleasure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It certainly requires us to redo all of our manuals, and in particular the manual for third parties. That regime is completely being redone. We need to do those manuals, and we do the manuals, as you know, in a consultative process, which I think is excellent. We involve the par

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a few elements to answer there. Apart from parties, which of course we do party by party as there's no other way of doing it, for candidates, we don't do party by party. We take them by region, and we don't prioritize based on party affiliation. It comes in and, if you

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the vast majority of Canadians, proving their identity is not a problem. Proving their address is a bit more challenging but for most Canadians it's not a problem. However, 14% of adult Canadians do not have a driver's licence. For these people there is no widespread document

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct, the voter information card would, under the proposed legislation, be allowed to be used in combination with another piece of identification. This is the case where someone comes to the poll with a piece of identification that does not have their address on it or does not

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do not have data on the by-elections. What we know from the labour force survey, which is a high-quality survey done independently by StatsCan, is that about 152,000 Canadians were unable to prove their identity and address during the last election, and 50,000 were turned away