Let's talk about the consultation following the last election. The Chief Electoral Officer did not even consult the advisory committee to tell it about the report he was going to submit. We weren't consulted on his recommendations or on what he wrote in his report.
The registration issue is one that affects a lot of things. I have questions even for Quebec. We also spoke with the Elections Canada people. In Canada, they use a permanent list that is compiled from data from the Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec and from the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec. Consequently, people are automatically on the electoral list from the time they turn 18. That's not the case of the National Register of Electors at the federal level.
There's also the entire matter of research. How do you go about registering youths and how do you get them to participate more in elections? Elections Canada should also ask itself some questions on that subject. If they start thinking about it, we should do so as well. We need a mechanism to allow that at the Canadian level, as is being done in Quebec.
In Quebec, they use two data bases to constitute the permanent voters list, which is updated every month. Surely there's a way to do the same thing in Canada. Unfortunately, there's too much data overlap. That's why the lists are incorrect. If Quebec only used the permanent list, that would already be a major step forward. Unfortunately, there is overlap with Revenue Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. That's what causes all the problems and all the duplication you see on the list.