Okay. Thank you very much for that.
In the previous hour, the Chief Electoral Officer answered questions that I posed to him with respect to changes around special ballots. Presently, one must write in the name of the candidate. Under this bill, a voter could instead simply write in their preferred political party. I asked the Chief Electoral Officer, in the hypothetical: If a candidate was standing on day one and the voter had marked the “Conservative Party”, but the Conservative Party had replaced the candidate with a different candidate before the candidate filing deadline, would the vote that had indicated preference for the Conservative Party then be counted towards that second candidate?
This seems to me to turn upside down the process we have had in terms of electing members of Parliament and not voting for political parties. It seems to me to be inconsistent with the statutory scheme and, arguably, to be constitutionally questionable. Would you agree?