I want to add my thanks to the course of thanks for all the work that you and your team are doing.
I wonder if you could help us drill down into this question. Let's imagine a particular long-term care facility that's in outbreak and we want to ensure that everybody who's living there is able to vote during an election if that's their choice. We know that the health care staff there are likely already overburdened and stretched very thin, so helping patients vote, on top of the regular duties, is a real challenge. We know that, in many cases, even the non-medical staff in personal care homes are stretched very thin at this time. We know sometimes long-term care facilities will have a roster of volunteers who in normal times would have been there to help with various tasks. We know many residents would need somebody there alongside them to assist them with the voting process. Even if they were able to procure a mail-in ballot, many might need help filling out that ballot.
What do you think is the best advice we could give to long-term care facilities and to Elections Canada? In keeping with the best public health advice, where should they be looking to get that staff time or volunteer time, or people who could go in and assist long-term care residents with voting in a way that protects their health and safety so they're not disenfranchised because we left it to medical staff who are already trying to do the impossible just treating patients?
What's the best way to try to ensure that they have that help if they need it and that the help isn't people who, yes, are trained, but who are then trying to move from facility to facility because we can't replicate that expertise in each facility? That obviously would present some very serious health challenges as well.
What can we do?