Of course, and I'm sure you have these occurrences where people allege false statements in political debate, but I think most of us around the table here can agree that if you're debating an opponent and you're talking about the way their party voted or what they had implemented, that is political spin at times and can be seen in different perspectives.
For example, in the last election my Conservative opponent, Mr. Gill, sent out letters to each household in my riding implying that I had supported a private member's bill and introduced it in the House, but I had never been a member prior to running; I was a new candidate. That was definitely a false statement, but previously there was another member with the same first name as mine, so by eliminating the last name and sending out a letter to each household, it could be stated that somebody with that first name had done this, but it was done during my election campaign, implying that I had introduced this bill.
That's where things become murky and it's a false statement, but I had never thought of making a complaint about that necessarily because I think there are ways to address that, through media, through responding to allegations like that.
It's the personal character that really bothers me, and as we want to encourage more women to run, I feel we should not send a message that as an elected body, we don't care if these types of things happen in a campaign. We should be sending the message that yes, on the books we have something, but it isn't enforceable and I want to help you make it enforceable.
How do we make this an illegal act or a corrupt practice? You said that it doesn't go that far.