Thanks very much.
I think this is absolutely where Daniel is coming from. We all know, at the end of the day, that we have different ways of getting there.
One of the things we're looking at is.... I do recall Mr. Therrien talking about transportation for the Saturday and Sunday in his areas. I know that in my area, in terms of transportation on the Saturday and Sunday, we don't actually have public transportation in many of my rural areas. It is just Monday through Friday, or here and there. It's very ad hoc when it comes to some of the transportation issues we have.
To be honest, it's the labour and it's the facilities. All of those things I look at as key barriers. We may want to have a Saturday-Sunday where it's a sporting facility or it's a church or it's a mosque. There are so many different issues that could come from this.
I think we legitimately have to have the conversation of.... We have talked three-day elections. This legislation says three-day elections, but the guy who's in charge of the elections is asking how they are going to do this. There are so many barriers to doing this.
I really think we need to get down to the principle of what it is we are looking at. Are we talking a one-day election, a two-day election or a three-day election? I think this is really what it comes down to. We'll see that all of the remaining amendments, and things like that, in the bill really go back to that principle of whether we are asking for a one-, two- or three-day election. Each day has its barriers. There are going to be reasons why some people will not want it on a Saturday or a Sunday or a Monday.
I tend to think on the Monday. Yes, maybe we shouldn't be traditionalists, but I do think on the Monday. I think that if we go to a Saturday and Sunday, we're going to still deal with the same issues that we deal with on the mail-in ballots. Are we going to open those on the Friday, or are we going to open those on the Monday? Those are things that, because we have not actually had a discussion on this.... We don't have the witnesses. We don't have anything like that, and we don't have the answers.
I'm very worried that we're just going to plow through this one.
I'll turn it back to the members, who may have some great ideas.