This is actually a very important point. The law is not designed to give an unelected bureaucrat the ability to withhold the parliamentary privileges of a duly elected member. It's designed to withhold those privileges from someone who may not have actually been elected properly, because they may not have actually followed the rules and that is the reason why they have not filed their forms. In those circumstances, where someone has not filed all of their documentation, it's perfectly legit and they've not done so for a reason that a judge or the commissioner believes is due to a breach of the Canada Elections Act...in those cases you can argue that the member's election to office is, by itself, possibly illegitimate. That is the reason why we're pursuing this approach.
Ms. Jennings talked about if someone had an administrative error, got sick and couldn't fill out all their forms. Do you see those as being real reasons under the current law for a commissioner to deny someone the privilege to sit in the House of Commons? Perhaps Mr. Wild can offer a concrete example of where it would apply.