Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the witnesses for travelling here to meet us this morning.
I would like to address two topics, and I would appreciate it if the representatives of the four parties briefly gave us their comments on both.
The first subject concerns the process followed on election day. The parties must organize a system for transmitting information from the polling stations to their organization offices to determine which voters voted at what time in the day. That's commonly called the bingo card system because that information is transmitted. There's currently a similar system at the municipal level. I'll give you the example of my municipality, Gatineau. As the day advances, the returning officer himself provides multiple copies, at regular intervals, of the list of people who have already voted. Every hour or 90 minutes, the parties or candidates go to pick up their copies. I'd like to know what you think of that.
Second, in the changes to the Elections Act, reference is made to the right of access to residential buildings for all candidates, but there appears to be a problem with regard to what are called gated communities. I use that term because that's how we know them. Then I'd like to ask you whether we should also allow candidates to have access to public places, that is to say shopping centres, stores or places of that kind.
So I await your answers, and I thank you.