Adding Indigenous languages to ballots a step toward reconciliation: Chief Electoral Officer

But Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault flagged a number of questions that would need to be sorted out, including who would be responsible for translation and transliteration.
Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, pictured in September 2019, was at the Procedure and House Affairs Committee on March 29 to kick off its study on adding Indigenous languages to federal ballots.
Enabling the use of Indigenous languages in the federal electoral process is “at the core of reconciliation,” says Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, but doing so would require sorting out details around which languages to incorporate, where, and how, and would likely mean amending the ...

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