I believe my colleague Mr. Christopherson will come back to your lack of power to compel documentation, which is at the heart of why you would not be able to monitor this.
I will turn to the question of clause 108, which would put in proposed section 510.1. I'm going to call it a muzzle on the commissioner of Canada Elections, who is prohibited from disclosing “any information relating to an investigation”. The only exception, which the minister points out every now and again, is “information that, in the commissioner's opinion, is necessary to carry out an investigation”.
My reading of this is that once an investigation is closed, there is no way for the commissioner, under this provision, to report on the outlines of the investigation and what was learned, short of a criminal prosecution, for example, or even whether or not there was no fraud.
Are you also concerned with this provision? It seems to be a way to tell the commissioner of Canada Elections that anything you might have found in your current investigations, which you're now going to close the books on because you don't have enough investigative powers, cannot be reported. Are you concerned about that?