Essentially, this amendment attempts to treat as foreign third parties entities that are incorporated in Canada but with foreign direction, and whose primary purpose is political activity.
I don't think it's any secret that we had a number of these types of entities in the 2015 election. These entities were operating in Canada and may or may not have claimed to be Canadian entities. In reality, they were actually foreign entities, because their direction was external to Canada. Their primary purpose was political activity. This wasn't in regard to some other type of advocacy. It wasn't in regard to corporate activity. It wasn't in regard to charitable activity. These were external organizations that specifically operated in Canada with political purposes, which is essentially, I would say, both foreign influence and foreign interference.
With that, we propose this amendment in an effort to ensure that this type of possible activity is absolutely eliminated going forward. I would really urge the government to consider supporting this in an effort to show Canadians that it is committed to only Canadian political activity within Canada.