I'm sure he is.
Do you not think, then, as a result of this investment and as a result of the confidence that we probably all place in this report, that we should actually heed its findings?
I mean, I've read this report, and there's not a single conclusion in this report to indicate that what's being proposed here by the government is going to work. In fact, what we see is that it's going to cost $3.5 million to start this up. It's going to cost $34 million per election, which is a 12% increase overall in costs per election. I would expect the government to be all over this as a value-for-money proposition, for example, but if you go through this page by page, I have marked at least 20 different locations where this report concludes that this proposal is simply not going to work.
Isn't it possible that the elephant in the room here, for Canadians who are watching these proceedings, is the following: that we're not quite sure why voter turnout is down; that perhaps there are larger questions looming about why voter turnout continues to drop; and that a band-aid solution of bringing in a voting day on a Sunday before the Monday, according to this report, is going to have a negligible effect for $36 million?
Shouldn't we, as responsible parliamentarians on all sides of the House, actually heed the findings of the evidence presented here before us today?