Mr. Chair, the bill, the fair elections act—and we're coming up to amendment G-4—clarifies that the Chief Electoral Officer now will be able to implement public education information programs, for example, within civics classes. That was a bone of contention. We made an amendment to allow him to do that. The only other clause deals with advertising and what the Chief Electoral Officer can do. It does not prevent him from transmitting or causing to be transmitted advertising messages for any other purpose relating to his or her mandate. That's just on advertising. There's nothing in the act that prevents the Chief Electoral Officer from talking to the general public on any other subject. This is quite unnecessary. There is nothing in here that restricts Monsieur Mayrand from communicating with the public.
On April 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.