Bob Bromley

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Elections and Plebiscites Act be amended to allow election officers to conduct mobile polls. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on questions from my colleague Mr. Nadli to the Minister of ENR on the Protected Areas Strategy and see if we can seek some clarification for the very, very confused partners that are out there wondering what’s going on with GNWT positions.

Last spring this government decided it wouldn’t comment on the recommendation reports and started to block their release. I’m told GNWT asked that work in the Deh Cho be moved to the land claims table, even though all parties agreed at the beginning of this work that these are not claims issues, a position...

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Elections and Plebiscites Act be amended to make threatening a candidate and impersonating an election officer offenses. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Electoral Boundaries Commission wraps up its public hearings tonight with a meeting at the Chief Drygeese Centre in Detah. Because of the importance of this work and to the health of our democracy, I’ll speak on this topic again this session.

Commission guidelines say that “in keeping with the Canadian Constitution on the notion of effective representation, the commission shall make recommendations to achieve relative parody between electoral districts while balancing community of interest considerations.” The discussion paper lists “one major factor” that “no...

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Elections and Plebiscites Act be amended to enable returning officers to strike names from the preliminary list of electors in cases where the returning officer is certain a person is no longer a resident in the electoral district; and to require the returning officer to post the names of persons struck from the list and to update it daily during the revision period. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Chief Electoral Officer undertake research on the relationship between voter turnout and the day of the week on which elections take place, and report back to the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures with the results of that research. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee recommends that the Chief Electoral Officer undertake research on voter identification requirements, and report back to the committee with options for amending the current requirements to make them more appropriate for NWT communities.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Earlier today the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures reported on its review of the Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Administration of the 2011 General Election. The report contained recommendations from the committee which we would like to introduce now.

Thank you, committee.

By way of conclusion, the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures will return with additional recommendations after its review of additional research and recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer on the following topics:

voter identification requirements;

polling day;

the definition of “broadcasting”;

options for new special voting opportunities for communities with no resident returning officer and with populations of fewer than 500;

campaign financing provisions; and

additional enforcement powers.

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Elections and Plebiscites Act be amended to add candidate nomination papers to the list of public records that may be inspected during office hours at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer. Thank you, Madam Chair.