For my part, I think that the current role of the Chief Electoral Officer in promoting voter participation should be retained and it should be expanded. Although it's difficult to say what the precise effects of the initiatives that Elections Canada has undertaken are, we have a lot of evidence from other jurisdictions that have been able to use more precise methods of assessments—experimental-type methods and so on—which would say that when you do engage in voter outreach, it does have tangible effects. Sometimes they're rather small but you do have tangible effects and they add up. As you do more and more it all adds up.
On April 3rd, 2014. See this statement in context.