Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. If the elector is on the register of electors, he or she may have appeared on our voters list through our administrative sources in the past.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it doesn't have the date of birth. That's on the—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would depend on various factors, but we try to find places, electoral districts, that are representative of the country, so the west, the east, urban, and rural. That's how we select those places. Usually we take about four or five electoral districts that are selected, so representativity is important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of the guidelines that will be provided to returning officers when they design the service areas, we expect that 95% of the addresses will be located in urban settings within 10 kilometres of their advance voting locations, and in rural areas within 30 kilometres of their advance voting locations.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Unfortunately, this is an issue we are aware of, particularly in northern Ontario. One of the advantages of taking an early look at the electoral maps is that returning officers will raise those issues with us and we should be able to find remedial solutions to those cases.