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Procedure and House Affairs committee  There was some background noise. You got drowned out.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To no one's surprise, of course I have a comment. I think anything that makes it easier to run and engage in the process is beneficial. I think the 18-month limit, which pervades this bill in so many of the clauses, has its root in the provisions that exist in the Elections Act—

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My mother might like that, but I don't know who else would be so thrilled.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under Bill C-24, the banks, being somewhat conservative in their practices, pulled away somewhat, certainly in my experience, from their generosity in the political process. That was not only because their political giving was so limited but was because the status quo, as it stan

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm wondering if I could try this. I absolutely agree with the goals you're putting forward. Not only am I a member of the Liberal Party, I'm a member of Equal Voice. But it seems to me that in order to get there in this legislation, if you start broadening the scope and put a

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The problem that arises—and from discussions I've had with your party and others in the past, I suspect it's similar—is that in the agreements the candidates presently sign, we assign the whole rebate, even though we only take a percentage of their rebate. Elections Canada sends

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Banks are not my clients generally, but if I were called upon to advise a bank on whether or not to give a loan, I'd be looking at that provision and saying your ultimate debtor here 18 months hence will be an unincorporated association, and unless you have adequate guarantees th

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's certainly an idea that warrants a fair bit of consideration, and I see arguments two ways. Since you're obviously well acquainted with the arguments for doing away with it, I'm going to play devil's advocate here a little, because I'm really of two views on this. We

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We can go back and forth. That's okay. My answer to that would be that we can do that already. All the riding association does is transfer money to the campaign to pay off its debts and borrow money to cover itself. So you can actually do that today if the riding association is r

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have two brief points on it. On one side of the coin there is a distinction between nomination candidates and election candidates, in that the problems of waiting for your nomination papers to be filed don't exist for the nomination candidates. As a counterpoint, the other d

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm Jack Siegel, legal counsel for the Liberal Party of Canada.

June 14th, 2007Committee meeting

Jack Siegel