Are voter identification and expatriate voting problems?

Despite what the Liberals have suggested and Elections Canada alleges, the voter identification requirements introduced by the Harper government’s Orwellian-titled Fair Elections Act proved not to be serious impediments to voter turnout.

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, pictured May 25 on the Hill, is the minister responsible for the Elections Modernization Act. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NELSON WISEMAN

June 11, 2018

TORONTO—Most of the public attention devoted to the Trudeau government’s proposed Elections Modernization Act has focused on the proposals to limit the length of federal election campaigns, the regulation of third-party political activity, and the restrictions on spending in the period immediate...

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