To the first question regarding Mr. Vellacott and the signing off on it, I know that what we do in our own caucus is the member of Parliament has to approve it to the party before it goes out, if you want your name on a particular ten percenter to go to a particular area. You have to see it—this is for our own party—you have to sign off, and then off it goes out.
I don't know how the Conservative Party works, but in the apology Mr. Vellacott indicated that he would be talking to the people who obviously draft these and send them out to make sure that kind of error doesn't happen again. Whether the Conservative Party has a policy where they actually have to see it before they sign it, I don't know. That's a question for the Conservative Party.
Regarding Mr. Ignatieff's statement on limiting ten percenters strictly to their own riding, I have my own personal view. I don't use ten percenters. I haven't used them for several years. I did in the past, no question, but I don't do them because I found with the cost, it took a lot of time for our staff to do them.
But I believe that debate should happen within the Board of Internal Economy and the officers of it. There are 308 of us. I sit in seat 309, which is a real honour and privilege. I just have one opinion, but I think the board, the leaders, can get together and make that honest assessment and judgment down the road.