Perhaps. Let me get right into it.
Thank you all for your presentation. It was a pleasure to have a chance to get to know all of you a little better at your offices earlier this week, so thank you for that invitation as well.
On the whole, I'm excited about the proposals for updating the voters list. We have an increasingly transient population, and since we're not going back to permanent enumerations, I think the steps you're proposing are going in the right direction. I really appreciate trying to ease the administrative burden on volunteers. Most of our campaigns are driven by volunteers, and anything that we can do to make their task less daunting, so that they'll continue to be engaged in Canadian politics, is really important. On those fronts, for the most part I agree with your recommendations.
I have a specific concern that is a little outside the scope of your presentation but still related. We've come a long way towards cleaning up the influence of big money in campaigns. We've eliminated corporate donations. We've brought in limits to donations from individuals. In many ways, we've worked really hard to level the playing field. But there still are some loopholes, and I wonder whether you could comment on one in particular. The rules on how you deal with debts incurred by leadership candidates still need to be tightened up. We're now some years past a Liberal leadership race for which debt levels are still high—I think the highest is around $330,000. If that debt is never paid back, that would in essence be an indirect contribution to a leadership campaign. I wonder if you have brought forward any recommendations with respect to tightening up that part of the accountability, particularly with respect to leadership contests. If it pertains elsewhere, I would be interested in your commenting on that.