Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think you'll have to talk to the chief medical health officer about that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, not the local—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The chief medical health officer did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You're asking for quite a bit of tabling, and we're in the middle of an election right now, as you can appreciate. I will certainly try to help you out as much as I possibly can.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll do that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We can provide some information on that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We don't have an exact number yet, but it was in the range of 15,000, as compared with about 13,000 the last time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can provide for you the increase in vote-by-mail ballots. The cost figures will not be available until I have released my statutory report on the expense of the elections. After that, we can certainly table it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  During the day, we were fortunate that COVID-19 had a very minimal impact on the process. We did identify four individuals who were close contacts of cases of COVID. In those instances, those individuals were removed as workers and a cleaning process unfolded. All of this came th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Throughout the day, we knew who was in the polling location at all times. At that point, if an individual was identified as a case, it would have been referred directly to the local medical health officer, and contact tracing would have been pursued. All of that was completed t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Perhaps in Saskatchewan it was a little bit different from in British Columbia. Door knocking was allowed. My mandate is not to oversee campaigning. However, I was in close contact with the chief medical health officer. He asked for guidance with respect to how to proceed. In th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There were a variety of mechanisms by which I sought input with respect to the political actors. I do work closely with our six registered political parties and receive input from them. Leading up to the election, however, we established what was called the electoral advisory gr

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would have to assess it first. I had not heard that this was a problem. One of the challenges is that the counterfoils are put into the ballot box after the fact. They remain in there so that we can evaluate after the fact. I haven't heard this to be a problem, Mr. Tochor, b

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just to be clear on the counterfoil, Mr. Tochor, the counterfoil is not put into the ballot box when the ballot is cast. That's normally the way it works. The counterfoil remains outside the box. It may be that after the fact they were placed into the ballot box. I'm certainly wi