Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to afford Mr. Mayrand the opportunity to go back to a subject he touched upon that will no doubt be addressed a little further.
On a number of occasions during your presentation, Mr. Mayrand, you said that the rules were consistently applied. You even referred to the Auditor General, who examined the Commissioner's operating method. You understood, as we all did, that that was part of the backdrop to all these discussions: were the rules properly enforced for everyone?
Let's go back to your very prudent choice of terms. You say there is a set of factors—you enumerate five of them—and you say in your explanation that you examined the returns of the other parties, but that there was no transaction or group transactions that met all the factors. In your oral presentation, you only said that there was no other group of transactions.
Would you be in a position to provide the parliamentary committee with a clear indication as to whether, in the last two elections—that's your frame of reference—there was a transaction in the case of the other political parties? You talked about groups of transactions in your presentation. I simply want to know because you enumerate factors that are not found in the act. That's very subjective; these are things that you've retained.