Finance committee  Yes. I'm Rachel Pereira, director of democratic institutions at the Privy Council Office. Thank you for the question. If I understood it, the intent of this measure is to establish a single, uniform national privacy policy for federal political parties under the Canada Election

Finance committee  I can't speak to other pieces of provincial legislation, nor litigation that's in play. I can speak to the intent of the legislation, which is to establish a single national regime for federal political parties. That's to mitigate the potential for a patchwork of different rules

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I would just say that it also provides a measure of clarity, in terms of the number of seats that we are seeking, to reference the 43rd Parliament, in part because the Chief Electoral Officer's calculation was announced in October of 2021. If we were to refer