I know that the job of the poll clerks and the deputy returning officer is a busy one on election day. Just from my own experience, it would seem that to have another procedure in place would take extra time and effort. But I can't speak for the estimates of the Chief Electoral Officer. Please feel free to mention that to him.
With respect to my opening comments about the identifier, the legislation you had before is permissive, that the Chief Electoral Officer “may” do this. I threw it open to you that if you wanted to make that a requirement, we would look positively on that. But again, we would look to the committee for some direction on that. You may want to proceed with it.
I'm quite interested in your area. For someone who has been “dragging” people to the polls for the last 30 years in every election in my area of Ontario, this is a fascinating new wrinkle on this. If it works, I'm at least intrigued on the part of a candidate.
But in any case, I'll let you ask that question to Mr. Kingsley.
Thank you.