My next question is related to the recommendation you wish to see implemented. On page 49 of your report, one reads the following:
Completing the Cycle of Electoral Reforms - Recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on the 38th General Election.
In the very last paragraph, you're talking about verifications that you've actually done of payers of Canadian tax who do income tax filing, who check off the box that says “As a Canadian citizen, I authorize the Canada Revenue Agency to provide my name, address, and date of birth to Elections Canada for the National Register of Electors”, and you've subsequently done a verification to see what percentage of them are non-citizens but actually identify themselves as citizens.
In the last paragraph, you say that “after the 2001 modification of the T1 General form...173,000 individuals expressly confirmed that they were in fact non-citizens, despite the fact that they had originally checked the income tax box reserved for citizens”. And you follow up with recommendations that it should be an affirmative statement rather than a statement that implies, etc., to try to correct that.
Given that such a high number of taxpayers check off that box, stating “As a Canadian citizen” when in fact they're non-citizens, are you confident that requiring only a written affidavit or a solemn affirmation of eligibility at the poll would be sufficient to ensure that each and every person for whom there's a doubt that they're a Canadian citizen or there's a doubt, if they are a Canadian citizen, that they are of legal age...that it would be sufficient to reduce to virtually non-significant numbers non-citizens who may end up voting?