The hiring challenge we have is.... Again, we need to recruit around 230,000 people to work on election day. Under the current regime, we have to wait until after day 17--so that's two weeks before polling day--to recruit. The reason for this is that we need to get names from candidates.
What we've observed over time is that there's a declining number of names being referred by candidates. I think it's less than a third of the names that are coming from a candidate.
What's being proposed here is that rather than waiting until day 17, allow us to start recruiting on day 28. That would allow us to better train officials and also to run a campaign to recruit the number of people we need for the election.
In the recommendation, we would be asking riding associations to provide names, if they have volunteers who would like to work on the election, but not wait until the candidate is officially confirmed, pursuant to the legislation, because that takes another 10 days. And that's lost time.