Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You make a good point, and I'll move on to the ethical aspects. I looked through the Elections Canada book for the words “ethical standards”, and the actual legislation does not lay out ethical standards for candidates during elections. It doesn't say that. It has a bunch of rules, of course, but not what you would call ethical standards set out in the book. I challenge anybody to find them, because they're not there.
We may want to recommend to Elections Canada--it wouldn't have to be in the legislation--that it lay out a set of ethical standards for candidates who get elected and those who don't.
So ethical standards are important. Why should we look at past elections? Why is that subamendment important on ethical standards? I looked up the ethical standards, and this is from the Library of Parliament so it's not biased.