“Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the hon. member’s presence. I hope he is doing well. What I would say is simply that the Chief Electoral Officer, years ago, went to the PROC committee and asked the government to do something about the ballot issue of having the longest ballot committee causing such consternation in repeated by-election after by-election, and even in the last election. Does the hon. member regret how his government let Canadian voters down by waiting so long to introduce the simple amendment to the bill?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 57 wordswhat pleases me is that when Canada elected a new Prime Minister less than a year ago, the Prime Minister made the issue a priority.1It has taken us not years but months to bring the legislation before the House, 2and not only the legislation but also a tangible idea that would actually deal with the issue.Reasoning · 43 wordsI believe that by having voters able to nominate only one candidate in a particular riding, and by ensuring that we could not have one official agent for 100 candidates in the same riding, the issue with the long ballots would be resolved.Claims · 12 wordsI anticipate that the opposition will support that aspect of the legislation.
