This is turning out to be quite complicated.
In essence, the clerk would be in a situation where he would have to speak to this. It would, perhaps, be seen as him either defending it or moving in favour of it.
We're deferring more to Mr. Bachrach to try to speak to how exactly the committee would proceed with voting if we were to find ourselves in that situation. This is a question that's been posed by our colleague Mr. Barsalou-Duval.