Committee should study proposed changes to election rules to prepare for future vote, say MPs

If health-care workers are asked to 'take on additional roles as Elections Canada staff,' former NDP MP Peggy Nash says unions representing them will have to 'sign off.'

NDP MP Daniel Blaikie, pictured in March 2019, says voters 'have a right to know about how a pandemic could affect an election, and the measures that are being considered by the government and Parliament.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

September 28, 2020

Legislative changes that Elections Canada is looking to make to election rules require a deep dive by a House committee, say some Parliamentarians, while one expert says there is a need to be “innovative” beyond tweaks to the Canada Elections Act.

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