I think there are potentially very great problems. Again, we have to come back to, what are the real misapplications that you have found with the current wording of the Canada Elections Act? Is electoral fraud such a problem that we have to make drastic changes?
Assigning each elector in Canada--and that's a good part of our population--a single number is one step towards assigning every single citizen a number. This goes to a society in which we are all numbered, in which, then, you can start to cross-tabulate the numbers and create citizen profiles, and thus enhance surveillance of citizens very drastically.
There are ways of doing it, the random use of numbers, keeping it only for that purpose, and so on, as is done in electronic government to some extent. In electronic government, yes, for various reasons--because you don't see the people and it's a distance relationship, and so on--it is done, but again I would say we should think very carefully before we start to assign more identity numbers to Canadian citizens. We already have a social insurance number.