Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question and his comment. We will discuss riding names in private afterwards. As for the question about the longest ballot committee, I think that the other measures already included in the bill, namely making it an offence to encourage people to sign more than one ballot and having one official agent per riding, are already enough to address this issue.
As I mentioned, if we were to add a requirement to only have one signature, the Chief Electoral Officer would not be able to quickly determine whether there were in fact multiple signatures. If we were to prevent a candidate from running because there were multiple signatures, we might be undermining good-faith candidates. We would not be able to do it in a timely manner anyway, so even if we were to implement this measure, we would not be able to prevent many candidates from running.
