Well, I have the floor, and whether you agree with my point or not isn't the issue; it's whether I'm entitled to talk to my point. But I hear what you're saying, and you're interested in moving on.
So here is the issue I have also with this amendment—that's why I think it's important. The main motion talks about certain election campaign expenses, and if this motion is to pass, Mr. Chair, I don't think that's detailed enough. I'm looking in the legislation we have now. It has election advertising, and there's a listing in there under section 320. And I'm not saying this isn't going to be complicated. I'm not in favour of the motion generally, and this is why I'm trying to talk my colleagues, including my Liberal friends, into not supporting this.
They should be withdrawing this, because this is opening up a big can of worms, a long, long process that I don't think they're willing to stand up to the scrutiny for. I think if we are going to look at past elections, which was in the amendment, all election campaign expenses that the Liberals, the NDP, the Bloc, and the Conservatives had—all four of us—and in previous elections what the Alliance did, what the Reform did, what a number of other parties have done, we should be looking at those expenses and what they mean, how they have changed. We are talking about making recommendations to Elections Canada here on how it administers the act, and I think we have to have an understanding if we are going to make informed, appropriate recommendations. We need to be informed on how it interpreted the legislation, based on what the legislation was, on election expenses—and I mean all election expenses, not certain ones—