Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I want to follow up with some of the questions that were posed to Elections Canada by my colleague Mr. Berthold. He asked the question about an analysis with respect to staffing at these additional polling stations. I think it's straightforward, but I just want to get it on the record that during the last election there were significant staffing challenges to see that all polling locations were properly staffed.
I recognize that it was a unique time. I don't believe ever in Canadian history have we had an election like the 2021 election in the midst of a pandemic. Hopefully, we won't have an election like that again.
Of course, it could have been avoided had the Prime Minister not decided to call an election to shut down the former Speaker of the House, the then Speaker of the House, whom he was taking to court to block the order of the House to produce all of the documents relating to the massive national security breach at the Winnipeg lab, but I can tell you that I sat on the committee—