Thank you very much.
I think this is where it all comes down to it. Will there or will there not be an election during this pandemic?
Honestly, this amendment would limit the Chief Electoral Officer's ability to accelerate the implementation of the provisions, which would be enacted by clauses 2 through 5, so as to prevent those provisions from coming into effect prior to September 20, 2021, which is the first scheduled sitting day of the House this autumn.
In other words, if the Prime Minister wants to call a summer election, he would have to do so mostly under the current rules, but if he wants to call an election under the new rules, he can wait until the House gets back. At the end of the day, we have all voted that there would not be a pandemic election.
There are four and a half days left, so when we talk about non-confidence votes—I'm sorry—we know that things will pass. We know that there is support for these things, so I think it's extraordinarily important that we get down to the bottom of this. There should not be an election during a pandemic.
Thank you.