I think the tension you have here, in designing the legislation, is this: How high a bar do you set that makes this kind of gumming up the ballot very difficult, yet is not too high so that a sincere candidate, who may not have the backing of a party or who may have the backing of a party that's not popular in that part of the country, can still get over that bar?
I will tell you that the thing that stood out to me, as I learned more about this, was the idea that a single agent can act on behalf of multiple candidates. I think that most Canadians would find that curious. We understand that elections are competitive processes among teams of people, so the idea that you would have one coach or manager for multiple teams strikes people—I think, rightfully—as against the competitive spirit of the election and suggests that this is something other than candidates who want to contest the election. I think it is clear, even from what the committee has said, that they're not actually about putting up competitive candidates. They're about making the larger point that they want a different electoral system from the one that we have.