Thanks.
Professor Goodman, I have a couple of questions for you.
You mentioned earlier, I think in your opening comments, about advance polls and their increased usage over the last while. There's no question that in the last election we saw a very significant increase in the use of advance polls. I think there are a lot of reasons for that. Some of them are the more typical reasons that advance polls see greater usage. The other aspect of it that was significant were the changes made in the last Parliament to the Elections Act, which increased the number of advance polling days. Therefore, that subsequently led Elections Canada to better promote advance polling because they were trying to make sure the public was aware of the increased number of advance polling days.
Certainly a lot of your research and the discussion you've had today are about trying to ensure we increase voter turnout. Obviously online voting is one of the things that you believe could help to do that.
What I wanted to discuss specifically is the idea of advance voting. Obviously, many Canadians are very unaware that they can vote almost any day during the election campaign by simply going to a returning office. It's something that I think many people are surprised to hear about. It's obviously something that you would be well aware of.
Would you agree that probably most Canadians are unaware that they can vote any time during the election whenever the returning offices are open?