I'm not going there, Chair. I don't have a lot of credibility when it comes to the clock. I'll just leave things.
Thank you all very, very much for your presentations.
Let me just lament how disappointed I am that we aren't having this kind of input at the beginning of the process rather than effectively trying to ram it in after the process.
I thought it was very interesting, Diane and Kory, that both of you talked about vouching and the importance of ID. You need to know that your position, from a practical everyday living life point of view, is supported by virtually hundreds of academics in Canada and internationally who agree.
Now, the government did manage to scare up one person—one person. They scoured the planet and found one person who agrees with them that vouching is fine to eliminate, and, at the risk of wrongly paraphrasing their comments, they were basically arguing that in this digital age it's almost impossible—he had trouble understanding how—any Canadian could not have the ID required to go and vote.
As I say, all the other experts and you point to a different reality. I'd like to give you an opportunity just to expand a little, to make it very clear in a real way both how vouching is helpful, and conversely, how damaging it would be to the rights of many Canadians to vote if it were eliminated.
Go ahead, please.