Thank you, Chair. I'm going to build on of what a couple of my colleagues, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Caputo, were speaking about.
Time is of the essence with this bill. We are aware that in the last few elections or more, there have been foreign interference situations in different electoral districts across Canada. We know that there's a looming election. We heard the date this morning—October 2025. That's not that far away.
We've also heard that it's going to take approximately a year to implement this registry and get it set up. In my pre-political life, I was in the private business world, and in a much shorter time than a year, you could incorporate a company, find a facility, bring in inventory, hire employees, get customers, ship products and start making profits. Could maybe someone from each department please enlighten me about how this implementing could possibly take close to a year or more?