I think perhaps a bit of clarification on the spending point might be useful for members.
The spending limit was something that was looked at in constructing the bill. The reason there's no spending limit is this. In a province-wide election, if you take your case of Ontario, as an example, there's roughly a population of voters in Ontario of 12 million or so. If you apply the spending limits that are currently in place for an MP, it works out to be roughly 80¢ per voter. If you take 80¢ per voter and multiply that by a province-wide population of 12 million, you have a spending limit of roughly $9 million or $10 million. If you compare that to the restrictions on contributions, and the fact that I, as a candidate, can only contribute $2,100 to my own campaign—there are no corporate donations, no third-party donations, no union donations—the possibility of raising $9 million, as an individual candidate, becomes rather difficult, it would seem to me, at least.