Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you're comfortable, I'll just take 30 seconds. Is that okay?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. What you also find that those who participate are more likely to have learned about democracy in school and to have participated in a parallel or mock election. You'll see in the following slides those characteristics of young voters; we cause those among our student

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure. I can. Also, I might, through some of these answers, bring it back to some of the things that I think might be useful for the purposes of this committee. There are probably a few things that are most relative to our success in growing our school numbers across Canada. Fixe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I can table that. You can also, I believe, go to some of our most recent curricula, which are posted on the studentvote.ca website. I don't believe we've ever had any criticisms about the accuracy of our curriculum. We remake that in concert with teachers in advance of eve

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What we do is provide a set of suggested activities and lessons whereby students can find, determine and explore the policies and platforms on their own. What we don't do is teach the policies and platforms. We feel that as a non-partisan organization you can get yourself into so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that.... Remember, I would like us to be friends and allies of the school boards, so I'm not going to criticize anyone in the education system today. We're aware of that, and there are certain jurisdictions that are stricter or direct on not having politicians come into s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll comment in relation to what we've done rather than just a general commentary. We agree with you. One of the philosophies of our approach is that an engaged teacher can engage their students. Last year, we had the capacity, which is rare, which means money, to gather and ph

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It doesn't really matter, because it's not up to anyone here. I think public health officials will play a role. We've seen three elections over the last couple of months and people still turned out. I think as you saw with Mr. Boda, they estimate that turnout only went down 2%, s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thanks. Ms Sahota, how much time do I have for that?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We just conducted parallel elections in the three elections that took place—in B.C., Saskatchewan, and the municipal elections in Nova Scotia. We missed New Brunswick because it was the first Friday and the return to school. Here's an interesting comparison. In British Columbia—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sabreena, do you want to go ahead?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Are you going to have time for me to respond to that, as well?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To explain the relationship with Elections Canada—which we're grateful for—last year Elections Canada contributed around $2 million to the student vote program. That would put us somewhere in the range of under $2 per student. This is more than just active voting; in some cases t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.