Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the question is valid. We've looked at the Quebec experience, which is the only jurisdiction in Canada.... By the way, I don't mind looking at municipal elections, either.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Wherever we can learn, we're willing to learn.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're looking to Quebec now. We have their report on how they required ID at the polls, and we'd be willing to discuss this with the committee. As a matter of fact, I have prepared a two-page document, which I would ask to be circulated, entitled, “Reforms and Initiatives Relating to Voter Registration”.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The clerk...

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not recommending that we go to a photo ID; I'm saying to the committee, let's sit down and consider it together. What is it that would work well? What is it that would satisfy you? You are supreme, and it's not the Chief Electoral Officer who decides whether or not there's going to be ID at the poll.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and when I don't make a recommendation on an item, it's because I don't think I should make a recommendation on an item.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, now I'm—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I don't think disabled people should have to bear this burden.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Currently, they are the ones who bear it because there is a 48-hour delay. The change that I am proposing would eliminate that 48-hour delay. Furthermore, let us recall...

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's my turn.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree. That is why I think that this legislative requirement is so important. Furthermore, they have to obtain my approval before allowing the establishment of a polling station which is not accessible. If they can't find an accessible station, then with the greatest of reservations and on condition that they show me they have done their best to find an accessible station, I give them permission.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, this is the response to the previous presentation that we made here. There was a series of questions, and this was one by the honourable member. We transmitted a letter to the clerk this morning, and there's one page that answers that very point.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to come back. If it is lacking in there, we'll find the means to incorporate it in some report or other that this committee could look at on a cyclical and religious basis.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That comment was made previously at an appearance here, and I responded that this was not a general phenomenon, in my view, but that part of the problem could also be that people are just picking up the cards and pitching them in the corner where they pitch the mail they're not interested in.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let me add, Mr. Chairman, that the report is not in the statutory report. In the performance reports that are provided annually, we incorporate a number of statistics. But what I would sense from the committee is that the committee should be provided on a regular basis with progress reports on this—they might be annual, or whatever—and I would be more than happy to provide them, so that the committee would know how many cases are open, how many cases have been decided and which way, whether it's a compliance agreement, whether it's a prosecution before the courts, and how many were dismissed because they didn't relate to the Elections Act.