I keep looking at your name and think, “Now, say it right.”
I really appreciate some of the enlightenment you can bring us from Ontario with your having a track record.
Quite frankly, I have read Bill C-54, and I wonder what the government is trying to fix with this. It may be what Monsieur Godin was trying to get at a little bit. If somebody defaults on a loan and is a candidate, do the members of the riding association then become personally liable? I guess that's the hard part of it, if Bill C-54 allows riding associations to guarantee a loan.
The other issue I'd also like to cover off is floor crossing. You may or may not have had a lot of floor crossings in Ontario, but in our last election we had a Liberal candidate, Mr. Emerson, who crossed the floor to become a Conservative two weeks after the election. I see nothing in this legislation that would ever cover that eventuality. I can well appreciate that a riding executive of one party stripe would not want to be the guarantor and indeed be paying off the campaign loan debts of somebody who was no longer a member of that party.
So I guess I have a two-part question: who is liable in default, and have you covered off floor crossings at all?