That's fair enough. What strikes me when I think about this is that on the one hand it resolves the problem of tying you to some previous address, which can be difficult to prove as time goes on. Your story of your driver's licence is actually a pretty typical story for a non-resident who formerly resided in Canada.
I used to live in Australia, and for the first three months I used my Canadian driver's licence. Then New South Wales law said that doesn't work anymore, so I had to get a New South Wales licence. I cannot remember where my Canadian driver's licence went, to be honest, so I get that problem.
The trouble is that we have a system that's set up on the basis of ridings, and that appears to me to be the nub of all the discussions that have gone on. We've had the Chief Electoral Officer in, for example, and the former chief electoral officer, and they're all trying to find fixes around this. This just struck me as being another way one could fix a problem.
On the other hand, as I say this I am aware of the fact that there might just be a constitutional impediment, which is insurmountable.
Let me ask another question, then. You mentioned insurmountable practical difficulties with regard to timing and so on. I know that as someone who has studied voting rights and the voting rights legislation in the United States you're very sensitive to this sort of thing. Can you tell me what the number one problem was at a practical level—there are many problems, but I mean the one that was the biggest impediment, in practice—to your exercising your franchise, other than the actual five-year limitation? It sounds to me as though overcoming this technically doesn't resolve your concern.
What's the number one thing that was a problem for you?