Qujannamiik. Thank you. Merci.
To respond to Mr. Boulerice, I am not an elected member. I ran once, but I lost.
I share your concern. How do we get people to come out to vote? That has been our organization's biggest question as well. Sometimes that falls on the candidates themselves: whether they are popular, whether they can speak eloquently and connect with the people. That seems to be correlated with the number of people who go out to vote. That's a real connection there.
Territorially, sometimes trying to vote from a party-line perspective seems to be a bit of a new thing for Inuit: “Okay, I like these guys, so I'll go with these guys and vote for the party line. They seem popular.” Sometimes people go that way. Sometimes people just say, “Oh, they're for sure”, and there are very few of those.
We are in this together in trying to get people to go out and vote. Their votes do count. It's a voice being expressed, and that's people practising their freedom.
How much money did we spend last year? For 18 million voters, it was probably billions of dollars. That's probably a $2-billion question for us as well.
Maybe Hunter has things to contribute about his experience with the process. I don't know if my colleagues have anything to add.