Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Canada Elections Act provides a number of options to prove your identity and your residence. If it were just one piece of ID, you'd need the name, address, and photo—and really that's the driver's licence, which is provided by the provinces. There's another option, where you can have two pieces of ID that collectively would establish your name and address.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was just going to add that one of the positive aspects of the pre-registration is that it could be used as a fairly concrete call to action when Elections Canada does conduct civic education activities with youth in high schools so that there's something they can do to be part of the process.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't, other than to say that the final report has been published on the website.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's just a clarificatory amendment. It does specify copies, because in most cases when you're mailing in your documents, it would be by a copy.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I imagine it would depend on provincial rules around what happens to companies after that sort of event arises, or on federal rules around such a case. There would be someone who would be responsible as part of that company, but we're not aware.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, the party that would be entering into an agreement with the calling service provider would be.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of the political entities involved or the third parties involved, there's generally a connection to Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The political entities...? Definitely. The third parties, so long as they're not incurring expenses to a certain limit....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In general, there can still be territorial jurisdiction in Canada over an offence where part of that offence happens in Canada. So in the case of calls, for example, the person receiving the call would be in Canada, and that would form part of the offence, so the territorial principle would still apply.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe it would. The CRTC gave examples where they had presented notices of offences against calling service providers outside of Canada. But in the case of the fair elections act, the political entities or the third parties would have to be Canadian, or connected to Canada somehow.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The only thing I would add is that under the government information retention management policy, there would be obligations in terms of publishing information banks, and that sort of thing, with the retention period played out according to types of information. Maybe that's what was being referred to.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under section 18.1—I believe it is—the CEO has full contracting authority. Section 20, subsection (1), is what provides that special personal services contracting authority, which is subject to Treasury Board approval to fix and pay the rates of pay. So that is something where the Treasury Board would be providing some guidance in terms of the rates of pay that would be subject to those.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The audit is not defined here or in the act. It's used in other places, for example, for political financing and returns, and audits of standards that should be used in terms of generally accepted auditing practices and standards. In terms of the scope of it, it's not set out here or defined.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was a precedent in the Canada Elections Act actually, so this same section, subsection 161(1) already existed in the act. It was an oral notification, oral advising about the oath, but this is more clear in terms of the scope of what that advice should be, so it essentially puts people on notice.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We'll try to answer some of those questions in order. If you look at government amendment G-5, subparagraph (b) that's being proposed, it essentially says that they are attesting to the elector's residence on oath in writing in the prescribed form and then sets out some elements that have to be part of that prescribed form, so essentially, part of what you're swearing an oath to.