In the most recent campaign where the writ was announced, it was a total of 37 to 39 days for the campaign—please don't quote me on the numbers—and it took several weeks to get it into my mailbox. It took me some time. I'm a voter. I want to consider all the candidates. I have to spend time looking up who is running in my riding. I want to find out about them. As I mentioned, the candidates who have a stronger digital presence really get my attention quicker, regardless of party and regardless of affiliation.
I had to make my decision, fill out my ballot, and send it back with tracking, because I wanted to know whether it got there. In the end, the tracking failed. Again, as Dr. Veale mentioned, the timing of our campaign seems to be getting tighter and tighter, and yet the traditional postal mail system....
Why can't Elections Canada simply have a platform where I can log in, and then, 24 hours after the writ is issued, download—as my wife, who is an American voter, can—the PDF of the ballot? I could simply print it here, fill it out and mail it back right away. Why do I have to wait for a piece of paper to come from Canada?