Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, we spent a lot of energy focused on the four ways to vote in the last general election, and voting in the local office was one of those four options. The first was voting at your assigned polling location on election day, because that is how most Canadians still vote

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We actually are in the process of doing a review of that program. It's only been in effect since 2014. That's expected in probably two years' time. It's not going to be complete—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, roughly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll complement that. If you look at voter participation, you see that it's a very complex issue. There's no one particular thing that will make a difference in whether somebody votes. It's a combination of factors. I'd say it's a team sport. Elections Canada has a very minor r

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, the way we work on this is to look across the country and determine which organizations are working with youth and doing work in this space already, or with any of those groups that I talked about. It's a fee for service; it's not a funding arrangement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The way the process works is they submit their documentation to us, having been provided with the basic information from Elections Canada. The main content of that is what we call our “Guide to the federal election”, which is distributed to all Canadian households across the coun

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the last federal election, no, we didn't have any issues.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, we've never had any issues with accuracy.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For example, through you, Madam Chair, some contractors run events where.... I can speak to, for example, blind electors. We have a mock ballot for blind electors or people with vision impairment. Some of the workshops that they may hold are about how to mark a ballot in terms of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through the chair, thank you for your question. The Inspire Democracy program was initiated after a comprehensive review back in 2010 that was completed in 2012. It was launched roughly sometime in 2014, prior to the 2015 election. It started out originally to focus on youth pa