Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in some particular cases, not all, obviously, the polling station is in a residential building and so, therefore, it could be reflected that someone lives there up maybe on a second, third or fourth floor and that would restrict them from having a poster in that window. In other cases, and I can give a specific example, in my riding one of the candidates running lived within the restricted zone where campaigning material had to be removed, therefore, they had to take it off their house. From my point of view, I thought that was kind of unfair, but that was the reality of the law at that time. Therefore, we’ve reduced the area, but we’ve also allowed the Chief Electoral Officer to make reasonable exemptions if they necessarily apply to a particular case. But, you know, in the discussion of lowering it down to 25 metres, we thought the exemptions would be extremely rare if there was one at all. We just didn’t want to tie their hands fully. As I tried to point out in the example, there probably are going to be cases why this may pop up once or twice if ever. So anyway, the moral of the story is, Mr. Chairman, because of similar examples as I have pointed out. Thank you.
Robert Hawkins on Committee Motion 35-16(3): Rules And Procedures Report 4-16(3): Signage And Campaign Activities At Polling Station, Carried
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Committee Motion 35-16(3): Rules And Procedures Report 4-16(3): Signage And Campaign Activities At Polling Station, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
May 27th, 2009
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