I reject wholeheartedly accusations to the contrary by other members in the room. Mr. Guimond is a man of great comportment, and I am here to defend his comportment. But I'm also baffled by his behaviour today, because we are friends. So there has been some improvement in our relationship since yesterday. It's been upgraded.
We now have this revelation in Le Devoir.
Le Devoir is an excellent newspaper which provides a lot of information. It explains the reasons why the Bloc Quebecois does not want to discuss these things.
With this revelation in mind, I think eventually the Bloc will have to explain why it is so fearful of opening its books. In the meantime, while I allow the member to compose himself and prepare such an explanation, I would like to point to another feature of my amendment that might have gone unnoticed.
This motion does not only seek to expand to other parties the responsibility to open their books; it expands the responsibility of the Conservative Party to open its own. In fact, it makes greater demands on the Conservatives than the original motion makes. The original motion asks for an investigation of our expenditures with regard to the 2006 federal election campaign. That's not good enough.
The Conservative Party wants to open its books going back to 1997, including those of the two legacy parties, and that is what is being proposed here. In all of four campaigns going back to 2004---