Again, without needing to repeat, I share the views of my Conservative friend on my ambivalence on membership fees and on the debt thing, but I think we'd be open to any change that would make it easier and would be a reasonable one.
With respect to what you call an absence of accountability with respect to leadership spending limits, I must respectfully remind you that the Liberal Party, as the first party to go under Bill C-24--you'll recall the Conservatives acted in great haste to make sure their leadership election was conducted under the previous rules, and did so very, very quickly and mysteriously on New Year's Eve. They were able to escape the rather new regime of Bill C-24.
The Liberal Party has gone above and beyond the Elections Act and has declared a spending limit. All spending must be declared publicly through Elections Canada. All contributions must be declared publicly. I note some discussion around those. The leadership expenses committee, which is a quasi-judicial tribunal in our Liberal world, is there to enforce those rules. We have published those rules and made it clear that any transgressions will not be tolerated. The Liberal Party has acted with extreme accountability, extreme transparency, in running our leadership campaigns. We set the limit based on our party's constitution, based on the fact that we need a nine-month process to have a leadership race. It's a big country, and we want to be able to get from Halifax to Acadie--Bathurst.