Does the prohibition against written pledges in section 550 of the Canada Elections Act prohibit a candidate from giving an election promise in writing?

Does the prohibition against written pledges

in section 550 of the Canada Elections Act

prohibit a candidate from giving an election

promise in writing?

Section 550 of the Act provides that:

No candidate shall sign a written document presented by way of demand or claim made on him or her by any person or association of persons, between the issue of the writ and polling day, if the document requires the candidate to follow a course of action that will prevent him or her from exercising freedom of action in Parliament, if elected, or to resign as a member if called on to do so by any person or association of persons.

Section 550 does not prohibit election promises made by a candidate to the electorate during an election campaign.

During an election period the candidate is prohibited from giving to someone or some group a document which will commit the candidate, if and when the document is subsequently presented to him or her, to take some specific action in Parliament (or commit him or her to resign) which restricts his or her freedom of action in Parliament.