I want your hopes to start to go down a little bit.
A bill is important, because if it's adopted, it becomes law in Canada and then we have to live with it. This has to be taken seriously.
When the committee did its work leading to the report, almost everything was done in camera. We worked in camera half the time. The report was drafted in camera and finally, this ended up before Parliament. Now, you're responding with a bill.
This isn't how things should be done. Normally, the minister responds to the report, there are discussions and sometimes a bill appears. I appreciate the fact that you tabled a bill, but certain Canadians would like to express their views on this bill and want to send us their comments. We can't simply pass a bill and then end up with a result that we'll regret later.
It's therefore my opinion that the bill has to be examined in-depth. For example, when you talk about our first nations, Aboriginals and the homeless, we don't want a bill that will...
It's been said that certain people circumvented the system and voted three or four times. Mr. Kingsley told this committee that no such incident occurred, that this is just hearsay. No one was able to prove cases of fraud. Some said they did it, but we don't have any concrete cases.
What I fear, minister is that we're removing the right to vote from poor people. Take the example of the homeless. They don't work and therefore they don't need a driving licence with a photograph. They don't have 10 credit cards and this and that. I'm not compromising myself; I'm just saying that we reported to Parliament, you prepared a bill and now we have to consider it. We have to remain open to suggestions. At the end of the process, it may remain the same or the committee can come to the conclusion that it forgot something or that the witnesses convinced it of something.
Do you agree with me? Do you think that we must be cautious and act appropriately if we want to pass a bill?