Mr. Chairman, I've let it go a number of times, but both witnesses thus far have referred to a party, party spending, party this, party that. Once again I refer to your comments that we're not authorized and it's not within our mandate to determine any ethical standards of any party. We're here to talk about public office-holders. If the witness has something to talk about with respect to the conduct of public office-holders or if that is your line of questioning, that's fair ball, no problem, but there are assertions being made in the process of asking questions that are merely statements and have nothing to do with the question whatsoever. They're statements they would like to get on the record that are outside the mandate.
I urge you, when you are hearing those questions, in the interest of following the guidelines, that you rule those questions out of order. Keep it within bounds.