Thank you very much for coming, gentlemen.
I have some concerns, as some of my colleagues have, about this H1N1. It's probably the same in all ridings. In my riding, many of the polling stations are in schools or seniors homes, which is where you have a high collection of people very vulnerable to this H1N1. Has any thought been given to...? Let's say, for example, if there were a spring election, has Elections Canada thought that maybe we'd better not go into the homes for the aged or to the schools to vote? Maybe we should go to a more private location. The other places are legion halls. It seems you always go where there is a concentration of people, which will probably cause some problems with H1N1. Heaven forbid that should happen, but as you said, you have to be prepared for that. I would be concerned, especially with the elderly, because their health is sometimes very fragile.
Another thing, the last time under ideal conditions on October 14, I believe it was, we had 60% turnout across the country. As one of my colleagues said, what if we have...? If 10% of the people are sick with H1N1 and can't get to the polls, what is the threshold? Is it 10%? If we go down to 50%, does that qualify as a legitimate election? If we go down to 30%? What's the bar? Where is the bottom? We could end up having an election and maybe having 30% to 40% of people attending, if it was at the wrong time. We have to give some thought as to what you're going to do about that.
The flip side of that is what are you going to do if on election day...? Every year we have a few phone in who can't make it. What are you going to do if 30% of your staff doesn't show up? Are you training extra in that event, so you have a built-in 20% or 30%? Has that been considered? There are a lot of things....