Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to clarify something. Electronic lists would allow voters to vote anywhere in his or her constituency, because the ballot paper is specific to the constituency. The electronic list is not the same as electronic voting; it's simply a way of managing the voters' list in the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are two aspects to that, Madam Chair. First, we have changing demographics. We are by law allowed to recruit 16-year-olds. You don't have to be an 18-year-old to work at a polling station. Increasingly, as I was trying to begin to explain, I think technology will reduce th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Bill C-76 did increase transparency by requiring a digital registry of online advertising. Again, I do have recommendations in my recommendation report to expand and build on that in terms of the digital world.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are current offences—for example, for impersonation, if that is used to prevent electors from voting. There are no offences if the goal is to undermine the trust in the results or the trust in the process. That's why I have made a recommendation to expand that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is a very complex area, Madam Chair. I have not recommended, and would not recommend, rules regarding the truth of campaign speech. I think that is not an area for me to delve into and for the commissioner to enforce. That would be highly problematic. However, there are so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, my recommendation is that if, knowingly, someone presents false information in order to disrupt or discredit the voting process, then that belongs in the act as a prohibition. I'm not recommending that there be sanctions for false information in campaigns, but that is, of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a good and important question. That's not unusual when it comes to nationwide elections in a G7 country. We have to be careful when introducing new technologies. We'll often first look at what's happening at the municipal level, and then at the provincial level. When the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There's always security risk. There is in the paper process as well. We have lists that are circulating in the campaigns and at the polls, and we have guidelines in place to make sure that they are recovered. Electronic lists of voters and voters who have voted are also supplied

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, the data that is on that list is the same data that is currently used by poll workers and by campaign volunteers. It is basic information that includes the voter's name and address, as well as a unique identifier that is used by parties to make sure that they are loo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have to say, Madam Chair, that we are one of the last jurisdictions in Canada to rely solely on paper lists. Provincially and territorially, electronic lists are the norm now. Quebec is moving towards that. They are, with us, one of the late jurisdictions to do so. It's been de

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll come back to the preamble of your question regarding non-tagged attack ads. One of my recommendations last June—and I do look forward to the opportunity to go through those recommendations—was to expand the requirement to identify the source of the communication, whether it'

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My recommendation would be to require political parties, third parties and candidates to have an identification, whichever form of communication they use to reach out to electors. It's a regulatory requirement. If there is a failure to identify, then it is enforced through pena

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There's a shift, of course in demography. What we're seeing, though, is that the electronic lists are a real opportunity to make the voting process more efficient.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would only deploy it, first of all, if I'm very confident in the security and reliability of the solution, following a thorough engagement with the advisory committee of political parties and, hopefully, through this committee as we indicated earlier.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes there are different components to the system. In terms of hosting on the cloud solution, that cloud solution has been tested. It is in use right now for other services that we use, and it is monitored by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. That part of the solution is sec