I support, as you know, the previous changes because of this unbelievable plethora of identification, and I didn't even discuss utility bills. If you include utility bills—and all of us have utility bills with name and address—it explodes the number of identifications easily up into the 300-million to 400-million range, probably.
We are in a modern, complex society where you have to have identity to do anything. Even to go to the library and check out a book requires an identity card called a library card.
Now to answer your question, I think we need a symmetrical system whereby we have the same requirements for identification. I think there are up to 44 pieces under the bill that became the act, and the same standard should exist for people abroad. There were some suggestions about voting in embassies. I'm saying this as somebody who has been out of the country before during elections, in the nineties. It would certainly be easier for someone like me, when they're out of the country, to go into an embassy and vote, for example, and I do agree with the idea that we should be using electronic rather than snail mail. Snail mail is just so archaic and obsolete it's not funny.
There are things that could probably be fine-tuned. I fundamentally reject the idea, though, that any Canadian abroad lacks ID, because you can't get into another country without your passport. I've travelled to over 50 countries around the world. That's a quarter of the countries on the planet. I've never been able to get into a country without a passport, a valid passport that is not expired. I've been to some pretty strange countries too, not just France and Germany but some very third world countries.