Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's always a pleasure to appear before this committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. As was pointed out, there are certain provisions of the Canada Elections Act that come into effect on royal assent, and one of those would be around specific measures in the act that would permit the CEO to take certain actions with respect to long-term c

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was going to say I think the Chief Electoral Officer has been quite clear that a longer writ period is preferable for the administration of the election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Madam Chair, I'm reluctant to speak about the proper translation. The concept is that the CEO would give instructions and have the authority to give them. I don't know if “donner des instructions” is more appropriate than “prendre des instructions”, and I'm not a French-spe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I'm not mistaken, elsewhere in the law it talks about “prendre des instructions”.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I would ask Mr. Roussel to take this one to talk a little bit about the existing process and what we can and can't do in the future.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, there's nothing currently that would create this type of repository.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As you know, there is a lot of reporting that goes on and the repository, in a certain sense, of all the reports that are tabled and filed. Those have to be put online, but not advertising, per se.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I just want to make one point about the way this is currently worded. It's not only digital or electronic, so it would cover posters that are made in people's windows or other types of advertising that cost under $500.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I guess my only question would be that polls in preparation for either of those periods would become part of what would need to be reported. It's not entirely clear to me how we draw the line. That's just a remark.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're stumbling because, of course, it will be available locally. We're going to have the results as quickly as we can on election night. As to how we're going to publish them and how quickly that's going to happen, I guess you are, unfortunately, jumping a little bit ahead of wh

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As you know, we are not proceeding at the next election with a vote at any table model. That means the finer points of issues such as what the prescribed forms will look like, or how to count the votes in that situation, haven't been determined. What I can say is that there is