Not true. I saw with my own eyes working as a scrutineer in the election won by Paul Martin how vans full of refugee claimants arrived to vote, showing a drivers license to register, many were speaking Spanish, and since I understand Spanish, I heard them talking about not being citizens, I protested to the Elections Canada officer and was told that it is ILLEGAL to require proof of citizenship at the polling station. Not only did I almost get ejected from scrutineer duty, but not one of the other parties backed me up. There were lots of irregularities at that polling station. When the polls closed scrutineers were locked out of the count for 1/2 hour. The liberal won the station but lost the riding to the NDP. At the time I was working as a translator for refugee claimants, and I found out later that most of them were signed up by the Liberal party and voted. I hate to burst your balloon AC, but this has been going on in Canada for many years, and as far as I can tell, ALL of the major parties do this to boost their vote count. They all talk about electoral reform, in my opinion the best first step is to issue voter ID to people who can prove citizenship and require everyone to show it at the polling station to be eligible to vote.