I don't think I answered Mr. Reid's question properly, but the BCCLA was opposed to those voter identification rules when they came into force. In fact there is a charter challenge that has gone through at least two courts in B.C. and an application was just made this week for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In both of those cases, in the lower court and at the B.C. Court of Appeal, the voter identification laws were found to be prima facie, on the face of it, a violation of section 3. Where the rubber hit the road, so to speak, was in the section 1 analysis. The justification of those laws, where the government bears the onus of showing why these laws are necessary, was where both courts upheld the laws. But in our view, we felt that there was too much deference paid to the government there, considering that, as Cara had mentioned earlier, there had been no evidence of what we were trying to fix. Back in 2007 we highlighted this problem. We see now in 2014 that even vouching, which the Attorney General himself said was a safeguard, is now being removed or it's proposed to be removed.
So we're seeing this sort of chipping away happening and we're very concerned that it's going to keep going.