[Clive]

The statute has to be changed to make it clear that Parliament intends that women who want to vote must be prepared to show their faces so that their identification can be confirmed.

But Mayrand is correct. A parliamentary committee cannot tell him to change the law or how to interpret statutory language.

If Elections Canada is wrong in its application of the rules of statutory construction, it is the job of a court of inherent jurisdiction to correct him.

If the statute has not correctly set out Parliament's intent, then is is the job of Parliament to amend the statute to use clearer language.

Elections Caanada is not a legislative body, or a court of inherent jurisdiction. Its regulating and adjudicating power is striclty constrained by the words of the statute as construed by settled rules of statutory construction.

No parliamentary committee or prime minister has the right to tell Elections Canada how to construe the language of the statute or to supervise his administration of the statute.

Elections Canada is responsible and accountable to Parliament, not to the Prime Minister or any committee of Parliament. Its construction of the statute is subject to review by the Court, not by parliamentary committee.

The prime minister, the four political parties and the parliamentary committee are treading dangerously close to improper and unlawful interference with the independence of the electoral process.

And I say this even though I think that they are correct in their stance on veils at the polling station.

[Sender]

Canada has had people voting for 140 years who are hiding behind a veil?

[Candor7]

Canada's chief electoral officer says he will not bow to the will of a Commons committee, only to the will of Parliament as a whole on the issue of forcing veiled women to bare their faces at polling stations. >>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Fire the POS.

How can you ID someone without looking at their face. This guy is NUTS!

[Don W]

I believe that the reason there has never been a problem with veiled women voting is that up until now, muslim women were either forbidden by their dear husbands from voting, OR they obeyed the laws of the land regarding masks, OR they never tried voting with a veil on before.

This has NOTHING to do with voting rights, and everything to do with further undermining the rule of law. The commissioner has to be a LIEberal appointee.