Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this Committee recommends that the Elections and Plebiscites Act be amended to remove the requirement to publish a candidate's or official agent's residential address under sections 96 and 97 and to substitute community of residence. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to also express thank you to the committee for doing this work and the Chief Electoral Officer. I do believe that this recommendation has come out of an issue I raised when I was first elected as a single woman living alone. It was concerning to me to come across my address published on a telephone pole near my house and then later just being able to Google it and find it. So I raised this concern to my colleagues, and they brought this forward to the committee and the Chief Electoral Officer and I just want to say thank you for that. I think it's a really important one, especially given some of the online harassment and such that I've raised in these sessions. Thank you.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Committee had this issue raised by, I think, at least a couple of parties. I want to thank the Member from Great Slave for bringing it forward. Yes, most other jurisdictions in Canada do not publish the addresses of candidates, their official agents, or donors. So we need to change that, I think, to protect people's privacy, and that's what this is aimed at, and I support it. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Some Hon. Members
Question.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? The motion is carried.
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Member for Hay River South.