Certainly.
To clarify for my friend across the way, the position we had put forward, just for the record, was that if there are issues of potential voter fraud, there are other ways of dealing with it. And Bill C-31, we believed, was not the right way to go--and here we are.
Again just for the record, we had suggested that a couple of smart commonsensical things could have been done. I mentioned the concerns about duplicate voter cards. We believe that we should use this incredible technology called an envelope and address the voter card to the voter. To ensure that these cards aren't picked up by other people to use to vote, the actual voter card would be addressed to the voter. If the voter wasn't there, it would be returned to Elections Canada.
Further to that, we believe there should be what we called universal enumeration for universal suffrage. Right now we have a mess with our voters list, in my opinion. I don't point the finger at Elections Canada; I actually point the finger at when we started with the computerized voters list. We ran into problems. Any of us who have dealt with databases, trying to keep on top of them, know it's an ongoing issue. You have to be vigilant and you need resources.
We believe we should have door-to-door enumeration for every single election. My goodness, if we're not willing to invest in that for something so obvious and important as elections, then I think our priorities are off. We believe those two things should have happened.
Finally, we did try to amend at committee to have a statutory declaration put in place, and it was refused.
So I just want to clean that up. That's a little housekeeping in terms of what we believe should have been done instead of Bill C-31.
I want to ask you this, Mr. Mayrand. I was looking at other options here, but you just mentioned the process that recently happened. You asked that all election officials and DROs require that people, if they are not visually displaying when they receive their ballots, do so, and if they don't, then they're to swear an oath. After you've asked someone to swear an oath, you will have the name, address, and requisite information for follow-up. Is that correct?