Well, for unpaid loans there is probably something I could share with the committee, if there is interest.
If we're looking at the last three GEs, generally for candidates—I'm talking about candidates here—outstanding amounts at four months after the polling date stood at between $3 million and $4 million. That's about 7% of all the funding available to candidates in elections. After 18 months, those amounts have been reduced by about 25%.
I hate to do a quick average, but after 18 months, it stood, I think, at about $1.3 million, so still after 18 months there was $1.3 million outstanding. After 36 months—three years, the period provided by Bill C-21—we are still talking about half a million dollars in total debts outstanding among all candidates, and here we're talking about 1,400 candidates.
There is effort. What this shows is that there are continuous efforts on the part of candidates to reimburse their debts, but some are struggling in terms of the time needed to reimburse them.