The additional staff will be assigned to work at the branches experiencing the highest traffic and lines due to its halted services while it's updating its computer systems.

"I think it was about 45, maybe 50 minutes later from when we got in line to when we were inside," said one voter of the line while trying to vote in the Canada election Monday.

Residents aren't happy that Hydro-Quebec is proposing to build new transmission lines in addition to these existing ones near people's homes.