Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all of the witnesses for appearing today. My first question will go to the languages commissioner from Nunavut, Ms. Aariak. If, for example, residents of the territory were able to write on a special ballot in Inuktut, do you think voter p

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, special ballots.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The commissioner of Elections Canada pointed to the fact that they had serious infrastructure issues with printing ballots and that printing ballots in syllabics, for example, would be very hard for them to accomplish. I am speaking in advance of an election. I'm assuming that yo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To be clear, have you, as the elections commissioner in the territory, ever faced infrastructure challenges printing ballots in multiple languages?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, how much time is left?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have one final, quick question. Madam Chair, if we were to have indigenous languages on the ballot, what section of the Canada Elections Act would have to be amended?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, finally, on special ballots, I think with foreign voters that would equally apply to further amendments to special ballots being mailed in from another country. Is that correct?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, for Canadians abroad.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I'm good.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you to all the witnesses from Elections Canada today. This is a very fascinating subject. My first question relates to special ballots or early voting. In the last election, given the facsimile option, did Elections Canada accept special ballots, which I believe were writ

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My apologies, Madam Chair. I took the red-eye last night, so right now I'm not as sharp as I usually am. Through you, Mr. Perrault mentioned in his introductory remarks concerns about printing special ballots in indigenous languages. Given that it's already the case in Nunavut t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, through you to Elections Canada, I understand that after every election, and sometimes in between elections, Canada goes to the voters of our country and asks them about barriers to participation. In any of the surveys conducted by Elections Canada to date, has the l

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. The report noted that approximately 11.3% of voters were not registered or 88.7% of electors were registered. Of the 11.3% not registered, does Elections Canada know why they were not registered, and why the number was marginally lower for registered vote

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Through you, Madam Chair, would Elections Canada be able to clarify what they mean by “revision activities“?