Procedure and House Affairs committee  What effect would that replacement have?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe. I don't know. I'd like to hear Mr. Morin's comments on that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The government decides to call an election....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Why?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Would it prevent it from coming into force in the pre-election period?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is the effect of this, then, that all the pre-election advertising limits we've placed in Bill C-76, if the election were called earlier, would be voided?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and how would it affect those limits?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, on the political parties.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's my point. All the limits that we've just placed on political advertising in the pre-writ period, if we were to pass CPC-195 and an election were called early—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No? It's irrelevant to that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Because if royal assent is delayed then—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You crafty....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is very sneaky.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Your worry is that any delay means that the pre-election limits on advertising by political parties—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —would not apply to the 2019 election, unless the CEO—