I'll be very brief, Mr. Speaker. I certainly respect the Member, but this issue has been around a long time. When is the best time to do anything? We could go through the whole calendar, as we have done in the past, and end up coming up with the same result.

Mr. Speaker, the problem that I have with an election that would take place on September 4th is that, although I'm still fairly fast that I can get around very quickly, there are 17,000 people in this city and many of them take off for holidays during the time that school is out; that's in July and August. So what happens is that if I'm going to have to get to people and campaign between the 31st of August and the 4th of September, I'm going to have to be much faster than I have been in the past.

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And I don't think it's a reasonable thing to ask somebody, as the oldest person in this House, to have to cram a campaign into the last three or four days of the 45 days that would be available. It's not fair to me, Mr. Speaker.