It may be there's a reason that other parties don't want to do what my amendment will accomplish. My amendment is consistent with recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer. We're regulating the calling activities of political parties. We know that we often hire—people hire—third-party firms to do automated calls. However, there are also calls made by political parties, by their own volunteers, sometimes by staff, but they are live calls made within political parties and electoral district associations.
This is on the recommendation of the Chief Electoral Officer, which the Green Party supports. The amendment, PV-48, would amend clause 77, at page 45, to include a new section 348.19, which would ensure that during an election a person or a group—which is a term that is inclusive of not just the third-party robocall firms or third-party groups, but would include political parties—is using its own internal resources to make live voice calls for any purpose relating to the election. Those voter contact calling services would also fall under this act, in terms of retention of scripts, retention of information, and so on.
It takes the existing section and basically applies it to political parties.