I guess the reason we're in that unusual circumstance...and it's hard to blame you for being in that circumstance, because you are in that circumstance and you've been put there because this took so long—and I know you don't want to speculate on why that might be. The fact is that it's beyond your control and it's beyond the control of many of us on this committee, and here we all are trying to deal with something that makes for very unusual, and frankly, very difficult circumstances. It makes it difficult for us, as legislators, to do our job properly. I think the proposal we're seeing makes it almost impossible, and I think it makes it very difficult, and maybe even darned near impossible, for you to do your job properly.
You already indicated there would be a need for some compromises, a need for some things that couldn't be properly implemented, and we had a chance to talk about that briefly when you were here before. I'll come to that in a minute to see if we can get a bit more detail on that.
When we had the officials here before you came in, we were talking about the third party regime and the foreign money. I was raising the question of the commingling with the contributions that are still possible from foreign entities prior to the pre-writ period. It was raised that it would leave Elections Canada with the ability to conduct an audit of that. I was asking at that time—and you might be able to give me a bit more clarity on this—what you think would be a reasonable barrier to trigger an audit in those scenarios. What would Elections Canada determine to be an appropriate barrier that would give you concern about that commingling occurring so that you would, therefore, conduct an audit?
Second to that, is there some way we could amend the legislation to be more helpful in this regard?