Mr. Chair, the question as put mentioned that usually where there's smoke there's fire. I have to say that sometimes where there's smoke there's only smoke. I say this because, when you look at section 331, as I said in my opening remarks, you can think that it applies to all kinds of various things.
One thing brought to our attention a number of times in the course of the last general election were the comments or editorials in the media, especially in the U.S. but also sometimes outside the U.S., and also pieces published in national Canadian newspapers but authored by non-Canadians residing outside of Canada. Many people thought this was objectionable and should not happen.
In my point of view, I don't think the intent of section 331, which was adopted, by the way, as I said, a long time ago, was to capture this kind of thing.