I do appreciate the presentations that both of you have made.
A couple of things come to my mind. First and foremost is that there is an ongoing need to look at ways in which we can improve our elections so that we have full participation.
Last night in some of the presentations they talked about the dignity of the vote. I can catch a little bit of that in your presentation in particular, Ms. Bergeron, in that you want to be able to go and vote. You don't want to have to tell someone to place your X beside a particular candidate or a particular party. Being able to mark your own ballot if you are visually impaired is something that is really important.
In listening to the presentations, what crossed my mind is proposed section 18. It does put in serious limitations for Elections Canada. We had a motion that passed a number of years ago, which received all-party support, in essence mandating Elections Canada to reach out and participate in more youth activities, in the production of materials and so forth. This is something that it would not have the ability to do if this legislation were to pass. Proposed section 18 seems to be a problem area for a wide variety of reasons.
If proposed section 18 is not amended, how would both of you, as heads of organizations, feel about that? To what degree do you think it needs to be amended?