Thank you.
Mr. Dinsdale, my question will be for you. I would like us to continue to discuss the voters' cards.
We have been given a lot of information up till now and certain aspects were really not sufficiently clear. I think that we have to send people a very clear message.
We were told that in 5,600 polls, people were able to use the voter's card in order to be able to vote. According to Mr. Neufeld and Mr. Mayrand, this was a pilot project that worked very well. Both of them recommended that the use of the voter information card be broadened.
By itself, the voter's information card is not sufficient to prove one's identity when voting. If the voter's card was incorrect, this does not mean that this could lead to fraud because when it is time to vote, you have to present another ID card and the information on that second piece of ID has to correspond to the information on the voter's card.
According to the data I have here, approximately 72,000 aboriginal people used the voter's card to vote in 2011. According to you, was that positive, with regard to the exercise of their franchise by first nations?