Thank you.
The motivating principle behind the choice of the third Monday in October was primarily, as I understand it, an effort to avoid any conflicts with other electoral dates, and also an effort to pick something that did not wind up conflicting with any religious holidays. Some of those are moveable feasts and there is a way of adjusting. A third thing was trying to do it at a time that doesn't hit when people are preoccupied with some other very important activity.
As we search for these, I don't think any date is perfect. If you do write back to us with further thoughts, I would appreciate it if you could indicate, in principle, what the most important considerations are. You can point out specific dates but indicate the principled reasons behind them. Mr. Gardner has actually been very clear in saying he has a principled reason based on people being unable to get onto the electoral rolls. In the end, as Parliament searches for the date that gets put into the law, if it gets changed from the one that's been suggested by the government, it has to have some guidance on what the principles are under which we are operating and what the hierarchy of one principle or one consideration over another might be in the eyes, ultimately, of the people who are trying to administer these elections, the various parties.