It has been so recorded. Thank you very much, Mr. Godin.
Let's move on, please. We'll probably get to this issue next Tuesday anyway, so I think we can have this discussion on Tuesday.
Right now we're going to move to section 2.12, “Distribution of Lists of Electors to Registered and Eligible Parties”. This deals with the other half of Mr. Proulx's concern about what we do with this information. It reads:
The Chief Electoral Officer repeats a recommendation made in an earlier report, Modernizing the Electoral Process (2001) to amend sections 45 and 109 of the Canada Elections Act to permit the distribution of voters' lists to eligible parties, whether or not they ran candidates in the electoral districts for which they are requesting the list in the previous elections. Currently, only registered parties are entitled to the lists.
Of course, there are some parties who are running candidates in areas in which they did not run in the previous election, and under current rules, they're not entitled to those lists. I think this makes sense. Is there any comment, or can we just pose the question?
Yes, Mr. Proulx.