I'm not going to speak for the other parties, particularly where there is some ambiguity. I think the NDP remains fairly supportive on this. The Bloc, I know, has a view about the flexibility provided to the Chief Electoral Officer, and they will decide in the end through your process here at the committee, if they fail to eliminate that, whether they will still support the bill. I hope they will, and I hope the same will be the case for the Liberal Party, because I think the flexibility that we have provided in this bill provides the measures necessary to deal with the exceptional cases, and I think doing differently would have some of the harmful social consequences that all of us want to avoid having.
On November 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.