Advice for legislators studying Bill C-76: electoral reform should guard system integrity while ensuring voter accessibility

Ultimately, Canada’s chief electoral officer Stéphane Perrault will have to arrive at a middle-ground between maintaining integrity and achieving accessibility by interpreting the legislation that you put forward.

Canada's new Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, pictured on May 22 at the House Affairs Committee. Canada's election commissioner Yves Côté should be given the authority to investigate and expose external actors who wish to undermine our democratic traditions and seek to foster doubt that our electoral processes can be trusted. Bill C-76 has so far overlooked this important emerging issue, writes Michael Boda. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL BODA

June 11, 2018

REGINA—On the federal electoral reform front, recent debate has centered on differences between refinements instituted by the former Conservative government through the Fair Elections Act and changes proposed recently in Bill C-76 by the current Liberal administration. The debate has seemingly fo...

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