That this Committee conduct a comprehensive study before December 2013 on potential mechanisms to enhance youth electoral engagement in Canada, with the view to implement such changes before the next federal election, including: modernizing the online voter registration system; ensuring there are polling stations on university and college campuses across the country; recruiting and training more youth to act as elections officers; raising awareness about how and where to vote, especially among mobile college and university students; considering an electronic voting system; considering automatic registration; and removing barriers t ...[+++]o pre-registering young people at age 16 as prospective voters, in advance of eligibility to vote at age 18.

| Creation of an interinstitutional working group | Boosting the legitimacy of the democratic institutions | Improved electronic voting systems/turnout in elections |

In addition, that Regulation provides that the Commission is to submit to the Council, by 30 June 2006, a report on the implementation of the electronic identification system, accompanied by appropriate proposals, on which the Council is to vote confirming or amending, if necessary, the date of the introduction of the obligatory use of that system and to update, if necessary, some technical aspects relating to the implementation of ...[+++] electronic identification.

4. The Commission shall submit to the Council by 30 June 2006 a report on the implementation of the electronic identification system, accompanied by appropriate proposals, on which the Council shall vote by qualified majority, confirming or amending, if necessary, the date mentioned in paragraph 3 and updating, if necessary, the technical aspects relating to the implementation of electronic identification.

4. The Commission shall submit to the Council by 30 June 2006 a report on the implementation of the electronic identification system, accompanied by appropriate proposals, on which the Council shall vote by qualified majority, confirming or amending, if necessary, the date mentioned in paragraph 3 and updating, if necessary, the technical aspects relating to the implementation of electronic identification.

Elections Canada has been closely observing the use of touch tone telephone voting in our country and I am confident that it will use an electronic voting system in a byelection before the turn of the century.