Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister.
Minister, I want to first reiterate that even though I wasn't directly the lead—my colleague, former MP Daniel Blaikie, was—I'm incredibly proud of the work that has been done to increase participation and improve our elections. This is vitally important work that we all need to be focused on.
Instead, the Conservatives want to focus on an aspect of this bill that, from the sound of it, is going to be resolved in the clause-by-clause study, if all of my colleagues follow through with what they are saying today. I want to reiterate that I'm happy we were able to talk about some of the positives of this bill, as well as the concerns, because there's still time for those concerns to be mitigated in the clause-by-clause study.
I want to take the time to ask you about an incident I just recently found out about. A former Conservative MP—his last name was Butt—in 2014 claimed he saw voter cards being misused, and he deliberately misled the House. He later retracted these comments.
In this bill, we're talking about false statements being made. I know you talked about the mechanics of the bill. I'm wondering if you have any thoughts of any mechanisms that could be put into place to ensure that Conservative members of Parliament, or any members of Parliament, cannot deliberately mislead the House and Canadians.