Mr. Chair, with your permission, I would seize the opportunity to talk about the challenge.
I understand the enthusiasm for having a single day of voting in terms of having people drawn on the same day. However, there's the availability of locations and, more importantly, poll workers. We cannot have poll workers administering two sets of rules with different identification requirements at the same time.
Recruiting poll workers for a federal election is a huge challenge. We spoke about the challenges of having enough who speak the language. Having to compete for recruitment with any provincial or territorial management body would have an extreme impact on the availability of services.
I would caution the committee. Hopefully, if it does come to study Bill C-65, I can speak to it, but I do not recommend overlapping provincial and territorial elections with a federal election.