Thanks, Chair, and thank you so much for your last comments and summation of what's happening.
Chair, if I might, I had indicated to you and I've indicated to Mr. Lukiwski my hope and desire to place my notice of motion today. I've indicated I don't have a lot—if anything—to say. My hope is that maybe we can just deal with it today, but if not, if we need the time, we'll find it I hope. But I served you notice of that and I hope we can deal with it today.
Therefore, I'll ask just one question so I don't risk going over. I want to come back to the comments from both of you. There's this sense that we're not understanding what you're up against and the challenges that you face and the frustration of seeing the federal government, where you already have relationship strains to say the least, now creating new barriers.
I want to focus on the VIC card. The government is very touchy about calling it the voter information card, because they don't want it to be the voter ID card.
But here's the thing, I'm the furthest thing from a statistician there is on this planet. However, common sense would say to me that if you're drawing from every database that you can to find the most up-to-date address available for a citizen, then that should be as accurate if not more accurate than the databases that you're reaching into, because it's those databases that generate all the other cards and pieces of ID that they say are acceptable, and you have the benefit of the amalgam of all those databases.
So there's a really good argument that goes in the opposite direction of what the government is doing. We ought to be looking at the idea of a voter identification card that uses the resources of databases to help people so that they can actually go in and as easily as possible vote.
Just again, is there any further testimony you can give to show the damage of denying the VIC card during the election process and conversely how much it would help if that card could be used as the piece of ID with address, even if you needed another piece to show name and photo?