Good morning. This is the legislative committee on Bill C-2, meeting number 18, and the order of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday April 27, 2006, is Bill C-2, an act providing for conflict of interest rules, restrictions on election financing, and measures respecting administrative transparency, oversight, and accountability.
I'm looking for witnesses.
You may come to the front, presuming you're all here.
Our guests this morning are Michael D. Donison, the executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada; Steven MacKinnon, the national director of the Liberal Party of Canada; Eric Hébert, federal secretary, and Jess Turk-Browne, assistant federal secretary, of the New Democratic Party; Gilbert Gardner, general director, and Martin Carpentier, director, of the Bloc Québécois.
It's good to see you all together here. The rule is, as I'm sure you know, that you each can make a few preliminary comments if you wish, and then there'll be questions from members of the committee. I don't know whether you can agree as to who is going to start. We'll start the way I read them.
Mr. Donison, good morning to you, sir.