Well, I think we can get around that, Mr. Proulx.
I'm sorry, Chair, I should have addressed my remarks through you.
A potentially very serious problem, I believe, again with the Liberal Party of Canada, is the situation with respect to many of their leadership candidates. As of January 1 of this year, many of the leadership candidates--I should probably more accurately say contenders, because the four individuals that I will name were certainly a very real part of the leadership convention, and any one of them at one point in time was being touted as a potential winner. But all of these major contenders are seriously in debt. As of January 1 of this year, Mr. Ignatieff was in debt to the tune of $529,496; Mr. Rae, $221,522; Mr. Kennedy, $568,102.10; and the granddaddy of them all, in terms of debt load, Chair, is the leader of the official opposition, Monsieur Dion, who as of January 1 of this year was still in debt to the tune of $838,707.03.
The reason this is relevant is if these debts aren't paid off by June 3 of this year, the candidates risk violating the Canada Elections Act. They have some options.