Thank you.
I'm not sure whether the chairman's point was that your picture on a wanted poster qualifies as photo ID. There are any number of good ideas coming out of Cambridge nowadays.
I want to make an editorial observation and then I have a question for the Chief Electoral Officer.
We are talking in this country about going to fixed election dates. This, if it occurs, will give people extra time to get photo ID—those who are in a position to get it, if they don't already have it. While that won't resolve all problems that relate to photo ID, it does mean, first, that people will have the opportunity, and second, that we can work on ensuring the opportunity is taken advantage of to the widest extent possible. That's, I think, a responsibility we as parliamentarians would have.
I want to talk a bit about the whole concept of voter ID and the concerns of people with no fixed address—homeless people—and how this relates to them, because of course we're not doing this in a vacuum in this country. It has been done in Quebec, and my impression is that, as with many things when it comes to electoral law, Quebec is doing a very good job.
I'm not a Quebec resident, but my understanding is that what they've done is recognize the fact that homelessness as a large-scale phenomenon tends to occur more in some areas than in others. They're able to ensure, in certain polling stations where you're likely to get a large number of homeless people—at a federal level one could identify an area like the area Libby Davies represents—that you could set up polling stations that deal with this. You essentially take people who don't have the proper ID and don't have fixed addresses and stream them towards elections officials who have special training.
In an area such as the area I represent, there is a small amount of homelessness, but it tends to be people who are couch-surfing—teenagers who can't live at home with parents who are abusive, and that sort of thing—and it's much more small-scale.
What I'm getting at is I think there is some beneficial experience from Quebec. The question, Mr. Kingsley, to you is whether it would be possible to identify the areas where this is likely to arise and to deal with this problem in a manner that ensures that the kind of concerns Ms. Davies has expressed can be minimized as much as possible.