I absolutely agree with that, but it also adds to the potential for confusion in the polling station. That then creates a backup, which then has people saying, “To heck with this, I'm not standing in line for two hours.” That's why I opened by saying it's voter suppression. The more difficult you make it to vote, the fewer people are going to vote. This is deliberate in my view.
I submit that the government has deliberately incorporated a piece of confusing language in order to cause confusion so there are backups at the polling stations that result in people getting frustrated and staying home. In my view, this has been the overall objective of the government in all of its reforms to the electoral act, with a few minor exceptions. The fewer people who vote the better for them, because the government knows, quite frankly, that the bigger the turnout the less well right-wing governments tend to do, here and elsewhere.
I also want to go back to the registry, the international register of electors. Again, Professor, you were having some problem understanding why it's being changed. I put the question to Monsieur Mayrand, is it broken? Basically, he didn't see that it was broken at all. Again it raises the concern, is the government again doing this in an attempt to have fewer people vote? The whole idea that you would eliminate a registry that's working and then tell people you can't even apply to vote until the writ is dropped, how stupid is that? I don't use that word very often, but that is just plain stupid. The fact of the matter is—
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