Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to my former colleagues for being here this morning to talk to us about this situation.
I listened carefully to Ms. Dubé's explanations. I understand that this policy was established in 2008. So, I assume that was after Italians voted in 2008, when Canada was a constituency in the Italian election.
I have a hard time understanding something. Let's take Tunisia as an example. Tunisia made a fairly similar request to 28 countries. Canada is part of a group of many countries. Canada is not a constituency in the Tunisian election. Tunisia created constituencies in certain locations and also designated a large region that covers all the other countries where Tunisians live.
This situation is similar to that of the French, who always vote to elect the assembly of French representatives abroad.
Among other countries, Tunisia made that request to the United States, whose situation is similar to ours and who willingly accepted the Tunisian proposal. Tunisia declared Germany a constituency, and Germany willingly accepted the request. There are a number of constituencies in France, which willingly accepted the Tunisian request.
Actually, out of the 28 countries Tunisia made the request to, Canada is the only one that refused. I am wondering what makes us so different in this matter from our very close allies, such as the United States, France or Germany.