Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do agree and, in fact, these provisions are modelled very closely on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act, and other acts before. This is very much in keeping with the tradition of transitional provisions. (Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Partially it's an issue of volume. We're talking about maybe 3,000 sheets of paper.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe 3,000 sheets per electoral district, or a little less. Let's say, 12 sheets per polling division and approximately 200 polling divisions, so that's 2,400 sheets, which, just to note, means a little less than 800,000 sheets of paper would be coming to Elections Canada after the election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're no longer election documents, so they won't be retained in the same way, but in order to make them available, yes, they would be coming back.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, more or less.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I should correct myself there. In the AMPs provision, there is an additional ability to impose a fine of double the amount of the contribution that is illegal, so above and beyond the normal fine, which can only meet $1,500. My colleague points out, and I do apologize, that in the case of a contribution that is illegal, in fact the fine is not set out in the act.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm open to being corrected by my colleague on this, but it may be useful to note that the amounts set for summary conviction are already higher than the maximum allowable under an AMP. Currently, under an AMP, the decision-maker could not exceed the amount that is the maximum for a non-summary conviction.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of nomination contests and leadership contests, Elections Canada's primary involvement is with respect to political financing aspects. For an offence here, we would likely be speaking of the commissioner's involvement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With CPC-141 and PV-14, we move away from simply an intent to affect the results of an election by adding “confidence in the integrity of an election” to that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would broaden the scope and would be more in line with the Chief Electoral Officer's recommendations. I would say that we could go one step further and refer to leadership contests and nomination contests. That would broaden it even further.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is no one single term.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was the mens rea, but also the reference to election.