Thanks so much for indulging me in the last exercise of robo-questioning, as we could call it.
I want to return to what I indicated is my fifth question, which is the whole question of calls to raise funds. Clearly these are covered as voter contact calling, but we also have a new provision in the bill, proposed subsection 376(3) of the Canada Elections Act. This is the exclusion. It says:
The commercial value of services provided to a registered party for the purpose of soliciting — by mail, telephone or other electronic means — monetary contributions is not an election expense... as long as the soliciting is directed only towards individuals who have made at least one monetary contribution of $20 or more—
—and it goes on.
First of all, very quickly could you confirm that this kind of calling would indeed be caught, as long as it's done during the campaign period? They would have to be registered, would they not?