Let me go back to the gray area. Would it not be fairer for the legislation to allow the numbers to be distributed to all political parties and to all those running for election in the ridings? We could perhaps take the phone numbers out of the gray area and make the information accessible to everyone.
For example, someone running as an independent candidate, who has never done the research, can use the list of first and last names and addresses, but they will never have the time to find the phone numbers. So they are at a real disadvantage compared to all those who have been representing political parties for 25, 30 or 40 years.
Do you not think it would be fairer to at least give the same basic information to everyone so that everyone is on the same footing at the beginning of an election campaign?