Thank you.
I think as a practical matter—I could be wrong here—EDAs tend to fall into one of two categories. I don't think there's a normal bell curve in terms of their financial state. They tend to either have enough money that they can simply make a direct loan or donation to the campaign at the beginning of the election—which is what my riding association did for my campaign in each of the last three elections—because they've just got that much money sitting in their bank account, or else they've got almost nothing. I suspect it's one of the two.
That's not anything other than setting the grounds.
The question I actually had for you on your proposal, which I think is a very interesting and thoughtful proposal, is.... First is just a technical question. I'm assuming you are saying that in riding X you could have the Liberal, Conservative, and New Democratic parties all decide independently in their EDAs to loan three different amounts to their own candidates. Would that be...?