Again, misusing, misleading, or providing false information about your basic elector information is an offence under the act. There are posters and notifications everywhere that alert Canadians to that situation.
I have one point of clarification. In the Etobicoke situation, it's true there were issues at the long-term care facility. There was vouching there. The vouching was carried out by the nurse who was caring for the patients, the people there. Statutorily, this is incorrect. That's an irregularity. But would anyone dispute that the people who live there, who had been visited by officials, who had been issued voter information cards.... Would anyone dispute that the nurse is a proper person to attest to who lives in the residence?
Again, this is an irregularity, but there is no reason to believe that any of the votes were not cast by perfectly legitimate electors. This is the kind of error we're talking about when we look at the Neufeld report and the various decisions in Etobicoke. That's why the court maintained those votes and maintained the election.
