Madam Speaker, I just came from the PROC committee where I serve as vice-chair. We had the Chief Electoral Officer state his concerns about holding an election during the pandemic. I asked him a number of questions. My first question was whether the Prime Minister consulted with him over his threat of an election yesterday. The Chief Electoral Officer said he did not. My second question was whether the Prime Minister had any modelling of how many deaths and cases a threshold would be, for him to recklessly throw us into an election during the pandemic. The Chief Electoral Officer had no comment.
In the House of Commons on October 22nd, 2020. See this statement in context.