My answer would be no. The reason would be to the extent we are trying to match up the provisions in the Canada Elections Act and the Referendum Act that deal with financing, for the Referendum Act to track the Canada Elections Act there would have to be, first of all, a limit on the amount that anyone could contribute; and second, a limit as to the source of that, namely voting citizens. Then, as you all know very well because you've recently received the audit reports from the last election in October, in terms of what happened to the excess amount that any of you may have been fortunate to have had coming out of the campaign, the options were to give it to the crown, give it to the party, or give it to your riding association, and not to spend it on another election for a period, because what we have under the Canada Elections Act is this very clear timeframe known as the elections period. That is a focused time when special rules apply. That includes the spending of money and soliciting support and actually playing this game.
In my view, if we can tolerate that for the election of people's representatives, then we should tolerate the same regime when it comes to people voting on a ballot question.