Thank you, Mr. Chair, and similar to my colleague who just spoke, I, too, want to take an opportunity to really thank the committee for its further report, but, more importantly, for the work that they undertook in reviewing recommendations, the consolidated recommendations. They were extensive. I again would have to commend the Chief Electoral Officer for doing that work. As a candidate in the previous election, certainly there were times in which I found that there was room for improvement in the process, whether it was to do with the act itself or whether it was to do with measures that come from the act.
In order to overcome this big challenge that we face as it relates to encouraging voters to turn out and vote, that a number of these recommendations certainly have to be enacted, and enacted sooner rather than later. As the Chair spoke of, we are two years into a term. It is not long before the Chief Electoral Officer has to start preparing for the next upcoming election. They will require a number of these changes to be brought forward to better support our form of democracy when it comes to an election, and to be able to promote, and encourage a higher degree of voter turnout because that is ultimately what this is about.
Modernizing and taking advantage of innovation are a couple of the things that we also have to take advantage of, and I am hoping that these recommendations will play a part in that. Those are just some of my general comments, and I look forward to sharing my perspective on some of the recommendations as we go forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.