Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Mr. Kingsley, for being here this morning.
I'm not going to stick to the list here. I've got some issues I'd like to bring up, and we were told we would be able to discuss anything related to the Elections Act.
One of the things that have been happening lately is that I've had three elections in three and a half years, because I was first elected in a by-election. It might be four elections in five years if things hold true. I'm starting to have a lot of experience in elections.
One of the issues is how onerous the work is for our official agents and some of the people who are doing work for us. They're all volunteers, and it seems that there are more and more rules for them. It is getting so onerous that people are saying they don't want to do it anymore.
I'm wondering if there's a way to simplify that. One of the issues, for instance, that our office is dealing with right now has to do with people who want to contribute to our campaign. We use our association's Visa account; we set it up through our association. This has been done over my last three elections and for my predecessor, Mr. Duhamel, in his last two or three elections. It has been audited and has been seen as proper. We collect through our association, and then the association just gives a cheque to the campaign. Now we're told this is not proper.
This kind of thing is really upsetting the people who are working for us. Is there a way to simplify the work all these volunteers have to do? They are volunteers, and it is an amazing amount of work.