I've categorically stated that proposed section 18, in my view, must be totally repealed from the proposed legislation.
If I may, I'm very pleased that you're raising the whole issue of aboriginal electors. A Canadian population that had been slowly reducing to 60% participation actually went to 64% at that election. We were able to achieve that. Phil Fontaine and I, through efforts that had been deployed, were able to trace that for aboriginal electors, especially first nations, the increase had been 8%. Who knows where we would be if there had not been those efforts with respect to the young people. Would we be at 33%, 35%, or 41%? I don't know. All I know is that when you're the Chief Electoral Officer, you know you have a job to reach out to groups that require special efforts to be deployed by the electoral authorities. This is the only way one can visualize that job.