Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll try to make this as brief as possible.
Welcome, Minister, and thank you for your opening remarks.
My question is quite specific with respect to proposed subsection 56.1(2). I'm looking for your assessment of the effectiveness of this proposed subsection. It really sets out in this wording two propositions that appear to be internally inconsistent, and therefore, as a matter of statutory interpretation, I'm wondering whether the proposed subsection would actually be voided because of uncertainty. As you see, it reads, “general election must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election”, and then it goes on to set that date as October 19, 2009. But of course, in the fourth calendar year after the last general election it would be the third Monday of October 2010, not 2009.
I'm wondering what the impact of that might be.