Again, I went through the Public Health Act to see what powers we have under the act to use our judgment around what things are safe and what are not, in different situations. My understanding is that we would not really be stepping in to interfere with the democratic process.
I doubt very much that anybody would decide to hold an election if we were in a lockdown red phase. In terms of the fine line between who decides and what should be done or not done, for the most part public health stayed out of those decisions. We just offered our advice: “If you are going to have an election, this is how to do it safely.”
The only question would be, would we give different advice on what that safe way of doing it would look like in red and orange? I think so, absolutely.