Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. It was a pleasure to meet you both before the committee started this morning. I'm very glad to have your expert testimony.
We've had a number of experts from different political fields. I appreciated your comments in your opening statements, both very specifically about the official agent piece and about the signatures piece. We're hearing from experts that they seem to feel those are reasonable restrictions to put in place, in terms of 100 unique signatures and one official agent per riding.
I would like to talk about the signatures piece a little bit more. Mr. Kingsley, your successor Mr. Perrault was here, and he was very clear that the checking of signatures would be very difficult to do and that it's not currently being done.
In your experience, what provisions would need to be added to the roster of Elections Canada to be able to meaningfully check signatures to make sure that if this provision is put in place, they are unique to each candidate, should the committee and, indeed, the House of Commons decide to enact such a change?