Just so we're clear, there are amendments coming up from the NDP but also from other members and from the Green Party, I believe, where we're attempting to tackle the same issue of crunched timelines by creating a system where....
At the moment the act is written so that the consultation period gets rolled into the period at the end of which the CEO must issue the guideline or the interpretation, and that leaves him with almost no time to do so. I understand we're both trying to fix the same issue.
Our solution is to keep the consultation period of 30 days, and then on top of that say it's 45 days afterwards that the opinion must be issued.
It seems what we're getting here is the same result on the one end, I believe, 45 days once the Chief Electoral Officer has heard back from the parties or the commissioner, but only 15 days for the parties or the commissioner to be considering it.
I'm wondering, or appealing to the government, whether or not we could focus on whether this 15-day period is really too little and that the better solution would be to do 30 plus 45 and change your 15 to 30. Everything in here would be fine, I think, in accord with everything we were trying to do. Your addition of the commissioner as somebody who has to be consulted would be fine, but the 15 days just seems to be a real crunch in order to.... I understand it's an attempt to respect the CEO's limits. The CEO is now being given 45 days. That's great, but in the process—