Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. Again, I find myself in a difficult position as an alternate Member on the Standing Committee on Legislation. And, as an alternative Member, I might add, I participated in the discussions leading up to these amendments. The Members of the committee who were active at the time in deliberating these amendments all voiced various objections or concerns, but the bill is now in front of us. The committee has sanctioned parts of it, I imagine, that we are now faced with having to decide on whether to go with the specific clauses.

The constitutional issue which was ruled on by the Supreme Court of Canada is that everybody has the right to vote. Based on that ruling, these amendments are prepared. I, as a Member of SCOL or an alternate Member of SCOL and also as an MLA, am going to support the bill as proposed.

There are many other items in this bill that we haven't even talked about that are good items: The clearing- up of allowing the chief electoral officer to set the period for enumerations; we've improved the enumeration procedures; we've changed the polling days from two to one; we've improved the procedures governing election contributions and expenses. All these, I agree with, so it becomes very difficult now to say we're not going to support, as Members have indicated, certain clauses and leave the others out. So I, for one, am going to be voting in favour of the amendments as have been proposed by the government.

I guess the issue of inmate voting -- and some Members have alluded to it -- is more administration. How do we access inmates? How do we run campaigns in our institutions? These are things that I look forward to during the next campaign. Mahsi.