I would have no major objection to that. I think we need to consider a procedure other than an election as a means of periodically checking the list. We must remember that the federal list benefits greatly from the Quebec list. To some extent, the Quebec list is our main source of information. In any case, I think it is important to try to establish a verification system.
Since you mentioned door-to-door enumeration, I will take this opportunity to talk to you about the visits to 1,400,000 households by two revising agents during the last election campaign. They went to places where people had moved such as student residences, nursing homes, and so on. After knocking twice at 1,400,000 doors, they did not even get 300,000 names. That is the type of response we get to this type of operation these days. It would definitely be possible to check the list by means of mailouts or by matching data with an agency such as Statistics Canada, which is already working in this area. These possibilities should be explored further.
However, I cannot guarantee that all of this will be ready in time to amend the act in the fall. Nevertheless, we would like to study these issues with you.