When we add hurdles to our ability to communicate with members, it means that we can't best represent them. We are democratic organizations, and our members lead where they want us to go, so we need to advocate on issues that often become issues in elections. That can be health care, things directly tied to the workplace or broader social issues.
Under the charter, we are protected so that we can represent our members and unions have a role to play there, but this idea that we're unable to do that because the work happens to fall within this period and we fall into this area where, suddenly, we have to be third parties when it comes to our own member communication, it really limits our ability to best represent our members. Quite honestly, it means we're also not doing what we're legally obligated to do, which is to represent our members. That's why it is so important that we respect that as well as respect the democracy. The exclusion for unions, as we laid out, makes a lot of sense.