Thank you, Chair.
First I have a comment to all of you. As I think has been expressed by members of this committee, the challenge that we have is to try to ensure that there's voter integrity so we don't have instances of voter fraud, and that's why many of the provisions and clauses in this bill were entertained.
On the other hand, I believe we all want to ensure that every eligible voter has the opportunity to exercise his or her franchise, and that's the great challenge: to try to combine both of them. I'm not sure, frankly, if we're ever going to find a process or a system that is ultimately perfect, but we're trying to work towards getting the best system possible.
While I can certainly appreciate the problems of the homeless who don't have identification and who are prone to losing whatever proof of identification they may have or having it stolen, or whatever, you have to counter that with the potential for fraud. So I guess one of my questions would be--this would be to Ms. Hale--would you have any idea how many of the individuals who frequent the homeless shelters are non-citizens? We know now, statistically speaking, there are millions of non-citizens--illegal immigrants, in other words--in this country. I don't know how many would be homeless. I don't know how many might be in your shelter. If you could verify that you knew this person, could you verify or guarantee that this person is a Canadian citizen?