Procedure and House Affairs committee  As per the OIC, the debates commissioner is required to provide a report on an in-depth analysis of the experience of the 2019 debates, the organization of the debates, and advice for the future form of a leaders' debates commission. That report is to be tabled in Parliament.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I fully agree.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, they're not trying to win power directly. In Bill C-76 you do have restrictions, both during the writ and in the pre-writ period.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We'd have to see how they exercise this responsibility. You could imagine they would provide some promotional material at high commissions and embassies and missions abroad. That would be one way. They might do something on their website to promote voting to Canadians overseas an

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. Under the proposed legislation, they would have to have lived in Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's not automatic. I don't want to leave you with the impression that someone would make a complaint and then the commissioner would have to launch to investigation. It's not—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If they have reason to believe that there's an issue, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Can we accept that “platform” might be an important policy, so “x” is really important? In that case, they've declared that a certain policy is important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is not partisan advertising. That's merely a declaration that this issue is important. It's issue advertising. It's covered in the writ period. It's not covered in the pre-writ period.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's partisan. To be crystal clear, even if in the writ period you mention that this policy is really important, that counts towards the spending limit of the third party.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In remote areas, there is increased use of mobile polls, and that helps both with advance polling and on the actual day of. In the case of persons with disabilities, there's greater scope for support from Elections Canada, regardless of the type of disability. Currently it's limi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is speculation on my part, but I would just observe that political parties are dedicated to winning office and winning power; third parties have other and different interests.