Yes. That's an important point. The regime has been designed with that in mind, with a certain strictness that says they have to be in no matter what. If you start doing exceptions for one, because it's a few hours or a few days, or there's a storm, a flood, a strike.... You have to be strict. We have to administer the rules as they are laid out.
We do see kits coming in later. Of course, some kits are lost in the mail and come in later or are delayed for all kinds of reasons, but there has to be strictness. I may be mistaken, but I was informed that Canada Post has stopped date-marking the envelopes they process, so this would not be a reliable marker.
In any event, it raises all kinds of policy questions that are legitimate. We see countries that allow votes to be counted if they come in after the election, but then you want to make sure the system they use for delivery marks the time the vote was cast.
There's a variety of means by which mail returns to us at the international and national levels. Somebody can bring it in. Somebody can send it by courier or by regular mail. We'd have to look at all the circumstances to make sure there is a clear marker for the date. I don't know that Canada Post still does that.
