I will leave it to the honourable members to discuss motive and the political side.
I don't think there is a reason to make people wait until the election period. You asked at the beginning of your question whether the system was broken. I don't believe it was.
The two problems were that some people's ballots were coming in too late. I think Mr. Kingsley said that was about 1,000. I don't know the exact number, but that was an issue. Sometimes Elections Canada would send ballots to the wrong address, because they sent it to the address they had on file and someone had subsequently moved to a different address overseas. I don't see how this bill addresses that while also making voting accessible for people who are overseas.
I don't believe the system was broken. It could have been tweaked in some small ways. Absolutely, we should always try to improve the democratic process with the idea of making it as accessible as possible. Why not allow people to register whenever they can and whenever they want? People lead busy lives. We have a crisis of democracy in this country, I think. Not enough people are voting or engaged. Why not try to facilitate the engagement of people, rather than making it more difficult?