My comments on this are that it may be something for Elections Canada to consider in this new aspect of where one person can assist more than one elector and can help several. The reason I believe it's important in long-term care is that it's literally right in their home, right in a room in the home.
What are the interactions in terms of how a person is offered assistance and where? Is it where a staff member, a community member or a political party representative could go door to door in a seniors building or a long-term care setting and say they're going to help?
The reason it's a bit different to me is that if you were at, again, the Joel Steele Community Centre, a regular polling location, that could happen there, but generally an individual would make their way there. Frankly, in a long-term care setting, the population is a bit more vulnerable. It's easier in a good way, because they're in the elector's home in the building where they reside. They don't even need to leave the building, I'm going to assume, in 99% or more of cases.
It's just the extra provisions where we're getting into this. It's not just the assistance when they are crossed off the list, they sign their name and they go back to cast the ballot. It may be that in long-term care settings, where it's more unique, individuals are assisting multiple people. They engage with an elector and bring them down to cast the ballot and so forth. It's more than your average, regular polling location. This could be prone to abuse, frankly.