Thank you, Madam Chair. The timing was indeed the topic that committee spent the most time exploring. In listening to Mr. Zoe's point about more public consultation, I think that, with the efforts that were made, I don't know that we would generate a lot more. I think there is a very broad acceptance of a fixed election date. Now, I think people are expecting us to work out the one that is the best for the most situations. Madam Chair, I would speak in favour of the motion, personally.
As Mr. Roland and I have had two elections now in the front end of winter, I don't relish the thought of doing it any more or of asking any other candidates to do it. A campaign in September, I think, is a really good fit or the best fit we are going to get across the length and breadth of the North. Our business planning process, at least as we know it now, would be interrupted. But business planning processes are not locked in stone either. I would like to think that we can amend the way we go about our business planning process that would give the new Assembly some tools to better work that way. It should also be pointed out, Madam Chair, that this is going to shorten our term I think by three or four months. That is one thing to keep in mind for our own legislative program here. This is not the last piece of electoral kind of business that we or the public are going to deal with, because our laws, as they were set a couple of years ago, will compel us to have an electoral boundaries review. That has to begin within the next term of the next year, so there's more of the same to come.