Thank you.
I just want to go to the last intervention I had with you, Mr. Mayrand, because we certainly have a difference of opinion on what section 459 says, and I will quote:
(1) A candidate or his or her official agent may apply to a judge who is competent to conduct a recount for an order (a) relieving the candidate or official agent from complying with a request referred to in subsection 457(2)....
Section 457 means when you ask for a corrected return.
Then it goes on to say, an application may be made (a) within two weeks after the expiration of the period. In other words, you gave Mr. Bezan until May 17 to file a corrected return. He did not. He informed you he would be filing an application with a judge to relieve him of that obligation before the two-week period had ended. Knowing that he was going to file the application with the judge, you sent the letter to Speaker Scheer.
I simply want to know why. You had to have known that he would have sent that application to the judge within the two weeks. He stated he would. If the judge had come back and said, continue the discussions, the letter would never have been sent. It was your choice, and I just don't know why.