Consultations Reports of 2019
- Inspire Democracy – Toolkit 1: Journey to Running in a Federal Election
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Prairies
- Inspire Democracy – Toolkit 1: Pilot Presentation at Equal Voice Campaign School
- Advisory Group for Disability Issues (AGDI) meeting
- Meeting with the Advisory Circle of Educators
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match West
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Northern Ontario
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Vote on Campus: Meeting with Colleges and Institutes Canada
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match East
- 100th Anniversary Logo Design – Online Consultation
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Lower Mainland
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Meeting with EMBERS/Eastside Works
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Event:
- Inspire Democracy – Toolkit 1: Journey to Running in a Federal Election
- Objectives:
- To pilot the workshop model developed for Toolkit 1
- To identify gaps in information about running in a federal election
- Audience:
- Potential candidates, experienced candidates, campaign support staff, people supporting candidates
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Intersectional
- Date:
- February 9, 2019
- Event:
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Objective:
- Provide updates to members of the Advisory Committee of Political Parties (ACPP) and get feedback on changes Elections Canada is making to its services and programs.
- Items for consultation:
- Inspire Democracy toolkits; Factsheet for political parties and candidates; Accessible campaigns and disability expenses for candidates and political parties
- Audience:
- Members of the advisory committee
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Political parties
- Date:
- February 13–14, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Prairies
- Objectives:
- To meet with Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis representatives to discuss how best to offer election services in their communities
- To learn what communications products would be most useful in reducing barriers to registering, voting, and working at an election
- Audience:
- First Nations and Métis community leaders in Saskatchewan
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Indigenous electors
- Date:
- February 26, 2019
- Event:
- Inspire Democracy – Toolkit 1: Pilot Presentation at Equal Voice Campaign School
- Objectives:
- To pilot the presentation of the guide
- To identify gaps in information about running in a federal election and barriers faced by women candidates
- Audience:
- Potential candidates, experienced candidates, campaign support staff, people supporting candidates
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Intersectional
- Date:
- March 1, 2019
- Event:
- Advisory Group for Disability Issues (AGDI) meeting
- Objective:
- Provide updates to members of the Advisory Group for Disability Issues (AGDI) and get feedback on changes Elections Canada is making to its services and programs.
- Items for consultation:
- Information package for Inspire Democracy's Toolkits; Improvements resulting from Bill C-76 to candidates' accessibility expenses and campaign accessibility expenses; General election priorities; The role of Community relations officers during elections; Recruitment; Mobile applications and application functions that Elections Canada could develop as a way to improve how electors get information about federal elections.
- Audience:
- Members of the advisory committee
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Persons with disabilities
- Date:
- April 17–18, 2019
- Event:
- Meeting with the Advisory Circle of Educators
- Objective:
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To seek input and expert advice on Elections Canada's civic education renewal strategy, specifically on the development and production of new pedagogical resources
- Audience:
- Educators from every provincial and territorial jurisdiction, one educator from a First Nations school and two members at large
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Youth
- Date:
- April 29–30, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match West
- Objectives:
- To meet with British Columbia First Nations representatives to discuss how best to offer election services in their communities
- To learn what communications products would be most useful in reducing barriers to registering, voting, and working at an election
- Audience:
- First Nations community leaders in British Columbia
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Indigenous electors
- Date:
- May 14, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Northern Ontario
- Objectives:
- To meet with Ontario First Nations representatives to discuss how best to offer election services in their communities
- To connect them with their local returning officers
- To learn what communications products would be most useful in reducing barriers to registering, voting, and working at an election
- Audience:
- First Nations community leaders in northern Ontario
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Indigenous electors
- Date:
- June 11, 2019
- Event:
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Objective:
- Provide updates to members of the Advisory Committee of Political Parties (ACPP) and get feedback on changes Elections Canada is making to its services and programs.
- Items for consultation:
- "Third party" in the Canada Elections Act (Bill C-76); best practices in keeping with Bill C-76
- Audience:
- Members of the advisory committee
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Political parties
- Date:
- June 13, 2019
- Event:
- Vote on Campus: Meeting with Colleges and Institutes Canada
- Objectives:
- To provide an update on the progress of the program
- To solicit students' opinions on the planning of the program and how to best follow up with schools
- Audience:
- Students and post-secondary institutions
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Students
- Date:
- June 26, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match East
- Objectives:
- To meet with Ontario First Nations representatives to discuss how best to offer election services in their communities
- To connect them with their local returning officer
- To learn what communications products would be most useful in reducing barriers to registering, voting, and working at an election
- Audience:
- First Nations community leaders in Ontario (particularly southern Ontario)
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Indigenous electors
- Date:
- August 27, 2019
- Event:
- 100th Anniversary Logo Design – Online Consultation
- Objective:
- To consult new electors in order to choose the logo design for Elections Canada's 100th anniversary
- Audience:
- New electors and other stakeholders such as the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, Institut du Nouveau Monde, City for All Women Initiative, Apathy is Boring, and Citoyenneté Jeunesse
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- New electors
- Date:
- November 8, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Advanced Business Match Lower Mainland
- Objectives:
- To meet with British Columbia First Nations representatives to discuss how best to offer election services in their communities
- To connect them with their local returning officer
- To learn what communications products would be most useful in reducing barriers to registering, voting, and working at an election
- Audience:
- First Nations community leaders in British Columbia (particularly in the southern mainland and Vancouver Island)
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Indigenous electors
- Date:
- November 19, 2019
- Event:
- Improving Election Services and Elections Canada Communications Products - Meeting with EMBERS/Eastside Works
- Objective:
- To meet with representatives of EMBERS/Eastside Works to learn about the challenges their constituents (homeless electors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside) faced in accessing election information and services during the general election
- Audience:
- Intervenors with homeless electors in Vancouver
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Homeless electors
- Date:
- November 21, 2019
- Event:
- Advisory Committee for Political Parties (ACPP) meeting
- Objective:
- Provide updates to members of the Advisory Committee of Political Parties (ACPP) and get feedback on changes Elections Canada is making to its services and programs.
- Items for consultation:
- Party experiences with the nomination and e-nomination process during the general election; Political Entities Service Centre Online Portal; Party satisfaction with products and materials developed for political entities (e.g. political financing manuals, OGIs, Inspire Democracy toolkit on running in an election, etc.) leading up to the general election; Party satisfaction with support received from Elections Canada, including from the returning officers and the Political Entities Support Network; The usefulness of products developed by Elections Canada to support parties in making campaigns more accessible; role of parties in the process to recruit poll workers during the general election; Party experience during advance polling days and on election day; Party experiences with voting by special ballot at Elections Canada offices, post-secondary campuses, and other service points.
- Audience:
- Members of the advisory committee
- Consulted Stakeholder Groups:
- Political parties
- Date:
- December 2, 2019