I had written down the figure; the Chief Electoral Officer told us $54 million.
to provide an option that will probably appeal to those already using the other options, such as postal voting—my parents vote by mail—or advanced voting; we have three days of advance polling. Ultimately, we may encourage voting by people who are already the most likely ones to vote, that is seniors or adults. That's why I wonder whether we shouldn't focus our efforts more on a different way of accommodating young people. Mr. Lukiwski said it earlier: people who vote when they're young tend to vote all their lives.
A suggestion was made to us, and I don't know whether you have any other ideas on how to attract young people quickly. The idea would be to have the same convenience measures as there are in homes for seniors, where there are electoral review boards and polling stations. There could very well be a certain obligation on the Chief Electoral Officer's part to have review boards in the universities and postsecondary colleges, as well as polling stations on voting day. Students could thus vote at their universities, but those votes would count in their home ridings. That's a suggestion that was made to us.
I would have liked to have your opinion on that and perhaps on other ideas that you have to encourage young people to vote in elections. The question is for the four of you.