That's right. If I had lived in Laurier's day, I probably would have been voting Liberal.
I had actually come with a series of questions regarding the appointment of the new returning officers, but partly through your conversation with Madame Picard and partly through a press release you put out last Friday, you dealt with the question by saying everything will be in place by March 1. That's very much appreciated, and it certainly puts my mind very much at ease.
I did want to ask you another question that came out of your conversation with Mr. Dewar, and that's the question on the time at which the polls close. For a number of years now, we've had an experiment in which the polls close at different times in different parts of the country. It means that the ability of people to vote at an hour that is convenient for them will obviously vary from one part of the country to the other.
You must have had a considerable amount of feedback from across the country as to how well or how poorly that works. I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say with regard to the question of whether or not the current regime works well. If it doesn't, how might voting hours be appropriately adjusted?
In asking this, I know there was another policy consideration when the law was put in place, but I'm really thinking of the accessibility of the franchise to voters on voting day, as an issue in and of itself.