If senior staff for these public office holders have to publicly disclose their finances, should that same transparency apply to party leaders and leadership candidates who seek to govern the country?
Let me add a bit of a precision here when I talk about party leaders. In elections in recent years, earning a seat on the debate stage, for example, has been confined to people who are reasonably expected to be in a party holding official status and that has seats in the House of Commons. For the sake of this conversation, let's not just say anyone who is defined as being in a party, but as being in a party that might hold seats in the House of Commons—the leader of a party who might reasonably be expected to elect members to the House.