Yes, Mr. Christopherson.
Essentially, Canada has a leading role in this. Through international development, Canada has always been promoting training, capacity-building, and democratization in many countries, whether it's Afghanistan or countries like Nigeria or Ghana. Many other countries don't have the experience Canada has and therefore they want to learn. It's about cooperation and capacity-building. If Canada in any way restricts voters' rights, for example, by making it more difficult for some categories to register or for the election body to provide information, then this is a cue that is going to be seen in places around the world that don't have the experience and don't have the commitment or the willpower to push forward on democratization. So I think it would be harmful in many regards to a lot of the other activities Canada wants to do.
When I first heard about this bill from colleagues in Canada, I was pretty shocked. For me it was a little like, for example, Norway coming out and saying they're not in favour of gender equality, or Sweden saying they don't want to have democracy. Canada is really up there and to damage the trust that the Canadian elections have in the process, which this potentially could do, to make the whole process more partisan and polarized, which is very much the experience of the United States in the last decade, and to restrict the ability to provide information, seems to me to be going in exactly the wrong path, as an international example.