Mr. Barry Ryan:

We are in an evidence gathering phase. Like most nine-month-olds, we are crawling around on the floor, trying to listen to everything people are saying we should be doing. We are working on the active participation strategy, which will be a long-term, three- to five-year strategy. It will be an evolving document. Things we learn in the course of that strategy will impact our information and participation campaigns, and any PR we are doing. We will have a draft active participation strategy in quarter 1 of next year. This committee would probably like an opportunity to look at that strategy and we would welcome an engagement on the issue. It will inform all our work with electoral events in the next couple of years.