Thank you, Chair, and thank you, guests, for joining us. I'm going to start with the person I've met many times before.
Mr. Lavergne, it's good to see you again. I hope all is well. I want to thank you for your input here today as I know it has been through discourse, no matter what the issue is, on our elections.
You've talked about clarification, in many cases, on how you communicate. In your case, it's about naming parties or candidates, or who it is you're supporting in particular, and how that gets caught in this particular act. I'd also like to say that it's also the people who you do not want to vote for that should be clarified as well, because in going through the procedure of democracy I guess in many cases we tend to eliminate options before we get to the one that we're voting for. Also, on advocacy for promoting a specific party or the stand they take, I understand that as well.
The only issue I have is with the registration of a third party. You mentioned that you'd rather see it go from $500 to, say, $5,000. I want to give you an example of why I'm not sure I agree with that. If you take a province like mine, which has seven members of Parliament in total, if there were an advocacy group for, say, the separation of the island—float our way to the EU and have at it—they could actually mount a substantial campaign, but it's very focused. I only fear that if you have a larger number to start with, it wouldn't eliminate those local campaigns that may make a difference. They won't have to be registered as a third party. I'll let you comment on that.