Let me respond quickly, Mr. Chair.
First of all, the contributions that you refer to were deemed inappropriate advertising. We were told by Elections Canada that advertising was allowed. We did it in good conscience, and when it was deemed inappropriate, the money was returned.
I want to be on record. We were the first group in Canada to advance the argument for election financing. We stand by that. We stay by it. When Elections Canada said, “You shouldn't have done that”, the NDP gave the money back. We took it back—