Thank you, Madam Chair.
On the admissibility of amendments NDP-1 and NDP-2, since they amend the regular voting ballots—not the advance ballots or the special ballots—we felt that since the thrust of the bill is related to the health and safety of electors and electoral staff, adding new languages to the ballot would not enhance the safety of the people working during the elections or the electors themselves, since they still would have to come to the voting station to vote.
That's the reason why we thought the amendment would be beyond the scope of the bill, since the scope of the bill is quite narrow, due to the fact that it's a limited time span, if you like, in terms of its being limited to the pandemic. That's the reason why.