Mr. Speaker, that is a great question. In preparation for my speech, I thought about it, but the fact is that in 2015 we could not verify one way or the other. Many of those people might have been permanent residents without a Canadian passport and using their Indian passport. That is a fact, and that absolutely happened.
However, I think what Elections Canada and this place would need to do, if permanent residents were to continue to participate, is update the licensing requirements at the provincial and territorial level to outline one's status in Canada. That is an easy fix to the issue I am addressing, to outline if one is a permanent resident, a Canadian citizen or here on another type of visa. That is indeed one way we could address my very real concern.