Thank you.
I was seeking answers. We were talking earlier on about young people and what they experience when they go to university. I think you understand the problem. Young people leave home to go to university. Some keep their address, whereas others change it to the apartment they take in the city where they are studying. For example, young people leave the Acadian Peninsula to go to the University of Moncton. They take an apartment in their own name, or perhaps they live in the university residence and keep their former address.
Another problem is posed by National Defence and soldiers based in certain areas. Problems were raised in Halifax. I became aware of complaints in the Halifax region where problems cropped up when the time came to vote.
Another problem has been bothering me recently. I have already explained the situation in the past, but I will repeat it for the benefit of the people present today. In my corner of the country, many workers leave the region to go and work out west, for example in Fort McMurray in Alberta. These people do not have the opportunity to vote. Even worse, some of these people came back during the week before the elections in order to vote. They went to the Elections Canada office with their identity cards in hand. However, the act stipulates that one cannot vote at the polling station during the week preceding the election. These people were therefore not able to vote because they were leaving the very day of the election, at 6:00 a.m. And the people going to work out west do not number just two or three hundred, but there are thousands. That many people were not given the chance to vote. This resulted in complaints.
Do you have any recommendations on this subject?