Thank you.
I should be careful about using strong language, but it seems to me there's a double standard going on here, a very distinct double standard. We simply want to demonstrate, as a way of getting out of this kangaroo court that they are trying to impose on us, that not only are these practices—and we'll deal with this in the courts, obviously—permissible, but they are used widely.
So let's be clear about this. If these practices are, as we assert and are asserting in court, not merely permissible but so permissible that we should be getting the rebates due to us for the money we spent in this manner, then what they're doing in their own financing is acceptable, and we have no reason to object to it. We just want to make the point that they're doing the same thing.
On the other hand, if, as they assert, this is systematic criminal fraud, then it's systematic criminal fraud that the Liberals do also—and we think the Bloc as well.
My colleague Pierre Poilievre was making the point in his earlier remarks: how exactly does a party like the Bloc Québécois get by when it does no fundraising? They raised about twice as much money in the Bloc Québécois in the last quarter as I raised in my own riding.