As I see it, there are three different events where people may come to you for political financing. One is individual riding nominations, one is the actual election campaigns, and the third is, of course, leadership campaigns.
I am going to focus just briefly on individual riding nominations for a moment.
The cap on it is currently about 20% of what the expense limit is for a general campaign to participate in a nomination. That means to spend the limit...I guess how they calculate it is that you are looking at anywhere between $12,000 and $20,000, depending on the size of the riding geographically by population.
Those are relatively small loans. Are banks going to entertain those if someone comes and wants a $5,000 loan to participate in the nomination? Is that something the banks are going to spend their time dealing with?