Mr. Mayrand, I respect your answer in the context of wanting to increase the number of students who vote, and all of us around this table are in agreement with that. But this causes me some concern. In your recommendations, you say “A well-intentioned returning officer decided...”. Yet the decision reached was that the votes cast were considered valid. You've indicated that we haven't gone that route, as a country, and we haven't authorized those kinds of voting booths. I'm concerned that a unilateral decision was made without instruction from this committee or Parliament.
I'm wondering if you could explain how the votes are valid, even though this was not an endorsed voting booth.