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View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
First of all, I have a question that should only require a short answer regarding the website. You said in one part of your presentation, Mr. Kingsley, that software was available on the website. Did I hear that correctly? You read out here the phrase “the software for electoral district associations, registered parties and leadership nomination contestant...”, and so on. That's available there?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
I was looking on the website yesterday, looking at some of the manuals that can be downloaded and other stuff. I didn't actually see much in the way of software, so I'd like to make a suggestion regarding your website. It looks to me almost as if you couldn't find a place to put all these downloads and sheets, so it comes under “third parties and other entities”. You have to find it under the button at the top of the website. How about the idea of having a download button on that front page?
As they do on most websites, it says “downloads”, and that links you to all the places where you can get manuals and software. There's a nice long alphabetical list there. At the moment, you have to go all over the place to find the stuff.
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
I only make that suggestion.
On the questions regarding the rest of your presentation here today, what has been the impact on your staff costs and the numbers of your staff due to Bill C-24? How many additional people have you employed, and how much did your salary bill increase as a result of that?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
That's not in the figures.
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
That leads to another question about all the other kitchen items that were mentioned earlier. Do you need additional office space, photocopiers, desks, and all of that other stuff? How much is that going to add in this coming year? Have you applied for additional money for that?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Are you going to have to move offices or obtain additional space in the building where you are located now or additional space outside to accommodate the additional staff members?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Okay. Now, I'm still on the impact of Bill C-24 on your budget and your expansion.
On the registration of electoral district associations, initially the Conservative Party, or the Canadian Alliance as it was then, had taken the position that we would not register our associations and that it would all be reported through the national office. But now we've been told to register--my riding association; the electoral district association has already registered. So that process is going on.
I just wonder whether all the parties are registering and how much workload you're getting, and whether the 35 people, I think you said, are going to be enough. Do you anticipate running out of money or running out of space or needing more staff as a result of what you are now seeing happening as the parties register?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
That's very good.
I was surprised by the similarity of your spending estimates between the previous year and this year. On the preparation for elections aspect--which I can't find quickly because I only have a minute left and he has me panicked--the similarity in spending from year to year, even though perhaps this year will be an election year, is the similarity because you were doing redistribution last year and the costs all tend to balance out from one year to the next, or do you end up making an estimate in case there's an election, and returning money or never drawing on that money from the treasury if there's not?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
So it has more to do with being ready for the election.
If I can just squeak in the question, how much do you anticipate an election would cost if it's held this year?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Fine, thank you.
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Don't use any ad agencies that take off more than you expect.
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Kingsley, for your presentation. I admit to being quite surprised by the extent of your presentation, because the bill seems to be fairly simple in content. I'm actually shocked at some of the things you have pointed out in this bill, with suggestions for alternatives. I get the impression that your department, your staff, were not consulted, or if they were, not very deeply, prior to the preparation of this bill. I also get the impression that you are not very comfortable with its content and the position it will place you in, having to assess the qualities of a political party.
The main question I was coming here to ask you today, which I will certainly ask in a moment, is related to all these things. If we were to seriously deliberate on this bill based on your input, the bill might not pass before the next election, if it comes in the spring, as everyone expects. So I hardly know where to begin, but my first question will be, if this bill did not pass and an election was called in the spring of this year, considering that the existing law has already been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and the new law to replace it would not be in effect, what would you, as the Chief Electoral Officer, do in the matter of enforcement? Would you enforce the existing law, unconstitutional as it is, or would you act in the spirit of the new law that would be in place after something like this is passed? It's a bit of a conundrum for you. What would you do?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Your preference, then, is to have some sort of resolution of this problem.
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Do I have one minute, Mr. Chairman?
View Ted White Profile
CPC (BC)
Then, Mr. Kingsley, can you indicate which of the three suggested solutions would be your preference? I also ask you if you were aware that the committee was ready to do clause-by-clause last week to push the bill through the House without any adjustments at all, and that in fact there may not be any chance to make any amendments or changes, although you are under the impression that we were going to do so.
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