I would suggest that we need to know well in advance of that just what the rules are, because if the Conservatives did nothing wrong, then they're enjoying a legal unfair competitive advantage over the rest of us who don't exceed our national spending limits. In other words, until somebody says clearly that what they did was wrong, and if we have another election in six or twelve months, then the other parties had better do the same thing to create a level playing field. They spent millions of dollars more than their national spending limit by this scheme and put us other parties at a huge disadvantage.
It just reinforces in my mind the importance of what this committee is doing. I don't think this issue will get an airing in the courts before we have another federal election. There has to be an election by October 2009.
Do you think this matter will be resolved in the courts by October 2009?