You will see in the report that we're making a number of recommendations, first of all, to streamline the process. What we're proposing is to give 18 months to candidates or leadership contestants, any entity, to repay their outstanding loans or debts. After that, they would need to seek authorization from the court to be able to carry that out.
We're asking because this is part of the problem today. All the candidate has to do now is notify us that they will not be able to repay within the time period and give us generally a reason, but we don't have any authority to probe the reason or the explanation. If they tell us they have an outstanding loan or a promissory note, we can't challenge that promissory note. So that's part of the issue.
At the end of the day, you will see in the recommendations that we're favouring transparency over finality. We do propose some suggestions with regard to finality, one of them being to go as far as banning a candidate or leadership contestant to run again until those debts have been repaid. That would be a civil remedy, and it raises all sorts of questions too, but we're offering that for consideration by the committee.