 On 18 December 1996 , the Governor General of Canada Roméo LeBlanc granted Royal Assent to Bill C @-@ 63 for the creation of a permanent list of voters to be used for all federal elections and referendums in Canada , the National Register of Electors , to be maintained by Elections Canada . In April 1997 , Elections Canada conducted a final house @-@ to @-@ house enumeration throughout Canada to establish the preliminary National Register of Electors , which was used for the Canadian federal election that June . 
