Procedure and House Affairs committee  The party is also prohibited from trying to circumvent its own limit.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly. The party cannot try to circumvent its own limit. It would be very suspicious if the same advertisement was published by each and every EDA. Again, the goal of this amendment is to ensure that EDAs will be able to, for example, print a pamphlet and put the party logo or

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's just different.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada does not conduct investigations. The Chief Electoral Officer conducts audits of the various financial returns that are provided to him. On the other hand, the commissioner of Canada elections conducts investigations on the enforcement of the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At this point, it's a policy decision.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The technical effect of this is that the Chief Electoral Officer will not be granted the power to request documents.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Motion LIB-38 would be removing the lines 1 to 5 in the English version at page 157 and the equivalent in French, so that would remove the power of the Chief Electoral Officer to require the chief agent of a party to provide specified documents in support of the party's—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would remove that requirement, but a following motion, which is associated as per the chair's ruling, LIB-60, would empower the commissioner of Canada elections, in the course of an investigation conducted in response to a complaint, to request documents from registered partie

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I will just mention to the committee that from a technical standpoint, NDP-21 does refer to consultations with political parties through its proposed subsection 385.2(2), which makes reference to subsections 16.1(2) to (7) of the Canada Elections Act. Subsection 16.1(3) prov

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, this is about supporting documents. This is about receipts from bank accounts—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From an operational perspective, all of these documents would need to be translated and would need to be made available in an available format for persons with disabilities. I'm not saying that making something available in an accessible format is a burden; I'm just saying that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Am I right that the amendment would replace subsection 477.59(1) by subsections 477.59(3) and (4)?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay. Well, this is a policy decision, but from an operational perspective, 338 electoral districts times six, seven, or eight candidates represents thousands of candidates, and these represent thousands of documents. I must remind the committee that these documents are alread