Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Lemieux's suggestion that other parties need to be looked at in the same motion is not in fact valid. The reason is that Elections Canada, which has the mandate to apply the legislation, looks at every party's campaign returns and Elections Canada has held that only the Conservative Party has participated in this systematic scheme in 66 campaigns, and perhaps more.
As for the idea that people need to show their books, that people need to open their books, every party and every candidate, under the law, does that with Elections Canada. Elections Canada, in our view, does a very thorough job, and in the exercise of that legislated mandate they have found the Conservative Party to have in fact not met the requirements of the law. That's the issue here.