Well, that's a good point. You can't go back to the donors.
Mr. Chair and members, here's something for you to consider. The reason it can't go back to donors under the Canada Elections Act is because a tax receipt has already been issued and the money has been aggregated, and you can't sort out between all the donors, pro rata, how it would go back. In 1974, when Parliament enacted the Election Finance Reform Act, it said it can't go back there; that's impossible. But your question is excellent, because in this case you don't have riding associations, for example.
I would just defer on that point to what you and other experts might say. I assume you'll certainly be hearing from the chief electoral officer of British Columbia, who's had experience not only with those two referenda that you mentioned, but there was a third one dealing with aboriginal land claims in British Columbia.
Usually, in my experience in the referendum campaigns, there's not been a lot of money left at the end to worry about, but there has been in some cases. The choice basically, then, I guess, would be to forfeit it to the crown. But if there had not been tax receipts issued, then there would have been a possibility for that money, pro rata, to be returned to the donors.