Thank you.
There's one thing Mr. Simms and I can agree on, and it's the difficulty of having to follow Mr. Christopherson. I'm glad he was able to bring us slowly back towards reality a little bit. Mr. Christopherson can take off his tinfoil hat and we can look at the reality of the matter here. People can cast all kinds of aspersions on the reason for something, but at the end of the day, obviously, the purpose of this legislation is to be able to ensure that there's fairness, to be able to ensure that the same requirements are in place for non-resident voters who are voting by special ballot as for those who are resident Canadians when they're voting by special ballot, in terms of having a process that's fair and equal for all.
I just wanted to ask a couple of questions to you, Professor Lee, because I know you seemed to be fairly rushed to get through some of your opening remarks, and maybe didn't get chance to focus on Bill C-50 as much as I'm sure you would have liked to. I'd like to come to you on that with that very principle, the idea of ensuring fairness and creating a single process for both residents and non-residents who want to vote by special ballot. I want to get your comments on that. Obviously the change being made here is that rather than automatically being sent a ballot at the beginning of an election, and that ballot ending up somewhere it shouldn't be, this will require a non-resident voter to apply for a special ballot, just as the average resident Canadian would have to do.
What are your thoughts on that? Do you think that's a fair change?