Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to support the amendment as well. I don’t want to create any hardship for people in smaller communities perhaps where they don’t have a larger group of people helping them on election day or driving people to the polls or acting as scrutineers for them and those sorts of things. But by virtue of the fact that you cannot campaign on election day, to me to have the candidate in the poll where people are voting runs contrary to the principle of not campaigning on election day because, as Mr. Abernethy said, if you are the incumbent and you are highly visible and you are a high profile candidate, being the poll, what’s bigger, the candidate themselves standing there or…There is no sign allowed, there is no button allowed, but the candidate themselves can there. You know, how are you going to define brief visits? So I am going to support the motion for the amendment. Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Committee Motion Amendment To Rules And Procedures Report 4-16(3): Attendance Of Candidate At Polling Station, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on May 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion Amendment To Rules And Procedures Report 4-16(3): Attendance Of Candidate At Polling Station, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
May 27th, 2009
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