Yes, I'm just trying to follow the thread. The golden thread here seems to be that there was much ado about stealing and taking lunch money from kids and knocking off kids in school programs for money. Now it's okay, I guess, if the parents do that. We have the parents going to get the lunch money of the kids--that's okay.
It seems to me quite a volte-face, quite a turnaround, quite a display of how what looks good at question period in front of the cameras is actually not what the mainstream governing party believes any more. They probably had lots of donations to their last campaign that were made by people under 18.
It confounds me why, again, the NDP, as well, which has been front and centre on this issue, would accept anything less than the person of legal age--and I submit that in most provinces that is 18--making a contribution to a campaign or a political party.
I wonder what debate we're having that's serious. If there's a serious debate about taking money from children, about not taking their school money and their milk money and all that hyperbole, if that's serious, then Ms. Jennings' amendment was the one to back, not this one. So I can't support it.