I guess the issue here is certainly that I think each of the challenges that are put forward in the bill are to ensure as highly as possible that people are who they are. We saw this in the Ontario election. I saw this in my region. I talked with senior citizens who were not on the electoral list. They were on for their entire life, and they were not on the electoral list this time, for whatever reason—a computer glitch.
They didn't have the proper ID. One was told that a passport wasn't an adequate piece of identification. People at the polling stations interpret the law very literally. So we have to ensure that at the end of the day there is a provision that a person can still vote, because that is an inalienable right.
So I would say that the issue of homeless voting, or first nation or student voting, is the same as rural voting. It comes down to the issue of declaration. We heard at the committee last week that 15% of the people of Australia are voting now by declaration because it's a highly mobile society, with areas where we have students moving in and out, where people haven't put together the proper identification yet.
Have you done any numbers on comparable levels in Canada? If we fix this glitch and we're still leaving 5%, 6%, 10%, or even 4%, that's too much. Have you looked at the issue of declaration voting in Australia and compared it to the situation in Canada?