Minister, I would like you to confirm that you took the decision of establishing a unique and permanent identifier for each elector. I want to make sure I understood properly.
Secondly, I'd like to talk to you about the bingo card, which I have an copy here that I could give to your staff. I don't know how the chief electoral officer arrived at the decision to establish such a system which costs $23.5 million. This is a card that could be used with carbon paper. The clerk, who is already paid by Elections Canada could fill it out, thus eliminating the need to have representatives at the tables.
Regardless, the Quebec Chief Electoral Officer is supposed to come and explain to us how this bingo or representation card works. I'd like to inform you that this system will not cost $23.5 million. I don't know how the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada arrived at that amount. He's not familiar with the bingo card. How come he gave you that figure?
You will get further clarification when the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec comes to explain the card. Suffice it to say for the moment that this is a score card that a clerk in an office, at a table, could easily fill out. That could be part of her job.