Mr. Speaker, the minister has contravened none of our rules or directives. He did not use any list from his department. The people he met were people who had contributed voluntarily to the Liberal Party. This is the way it works in all parties. Everything we do in the Liberal Party is public knowledge. Receipts are issued, people can check.
This is very different from what happened in the 1993 elections, when members of the Bloc Quebecois refused to provide, they were not obliged to do so, but they refused to provide the list of contributions they received in the 1993 elections, and the law did not require them to. When the press asked them to disclose their contributions, they decided not to. They were not obliged to do so at the time. Only this year they will be obliged to do so.
In the matter we are discussing, however, the contributions are public and the receipts are public. Everything is public. The minister did only what every member does and what every minister does: during party fundraising campaigns they make themselves available so we may do our democratic duty, which is to have enough funds that the public knows about available for an election.