Thank you. Certainly the discussions we've been having on this bill have been very interesting, and they make us wonder if perhaps we should be writing a whole other bill here to deal with voting as opposed to strictly the issue at hand, because it has raised a lot of questions. We've received some answers and a general sense.
I think there is a general agreement that advance polling works, that people prefer it, that it is serving a number of needs out there for the change we've seen in our voting public. The question we keep coming back to is the element of changing what is not really an advance day but a full-out election day on the Sunday before, which would be a fairly dramatic change in how we have held voting in the past. Certainly there are questions culturally--a whole series of questions.
What we've heard from Elections Canada is that they figure the result of that will be a marginal change, if anything, given all the other opportunities to vote. Have either of you looked at the problems that would arise because elections are run with volunteers? Elections Canada has to find people out there. There is certainly anecdotal evidence that it would be problematic to be able to pull the vote full out for two straight days. Have you looked at this element and at whether or not that would be a problem?