Thank you.
With the limited time I have left, Madame Lenard.... I only want to point this out, because this is not a Canadian statistic, but I just found this news story. Since you were saying that there have really been no statistics that have found evidence of fraud in Canada—although I don't know how one would find fraud, quite frankly.... If someone has voted illegally, I don't know how you would find that out, because people who do so usually have a way of concealing the fact that they are voting illegally.
But in the United States—I just noticed this article—North Carolina found tens of thousands of people whom they believe to have voted illegally, including between 40 and 50 who apparently cast a ballot when they were dead. Now, I'm not sure whether we have a completely different system in Canada from what they have in the United States, but I would suggest to you that there are documented instances—and in some cases they're very large-scale—of electoral fraud.
So my question to you is: how would one know in Canada, if someone has committed voter fraud?
Let me give you an example. It has been in the news recently that there was a reporter who registered three different times at three different polling stations, voted once legally, then spoiled the ballot in the other two, and then wrote a story about it. He was ultimately prosecuted, but the only reason he was prosecuted was that he brought to the attention of Elections Canada the fact that he had voted three times. Elections Canada would not have been able to find out otherwise.
So I am wondering how you can say with certainty that voter fraud has not occurred and does not occur in Canada.