Thank you.
I make the same point as Monsieur Guimond makes, but with the opposite conclusion. I think that one of the concerns with this—and I'm not sure whether this is what the NDP has in mind, but it comes up at other times in their proposed amendments—is the difficulty, which we heard some evidence on last Thursday, of riding associations in rural areas that do not have access to chartered accountants and financial agents. With onerous reporting requirements, they simply may not be able to keep up or find someone capable of keeping track of all of these things. I think perhaps that was one of the concerns the NDP had on it. There are vastly different financial—not monetary but financial—expertise resources available in different ridings across the country.
I just throw that out for discussion. It doesn't determine it in my mind one way or the other. I do think we have to have accurate accounting for these issues, but there was a sense of realism raised by witnesses from the parties on Thursday.