Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, Mr. Massicotte.
I am jumping in a bit here, but the discussion you had with Mr. Lauzon prompts me to ask you a question. I have the impression that your opinion about party financing must be very interesting.
You say that when political parties' funding sources are cut off, it is to the benefit of the government or Parliament to turn on the tap, as you put it, to make up for the shortfall, to arrive at an adequate funding level or one that resembles what they had before. Once organizations, corporations, can no longer contribute, the general public can do it.
The general public can take a variety of forms. It might be, for example, a denomination, a religion, that asks its adherents or its group to support one party over another. There is a form of corporation and financing that sets in and ends up more or less vitiating the system that is meant to ensure that the general public is financing political parties.