Again, I don't want to be too technical. It's not the government that's running the debates. It would be an independent commission, obviously financed through the normal estimates process. That's what we're talking about today.
I'm a big fan of Paul Wells and Maclean’s magazine. If he would like to organize 60 debates.... The problem is that the Maclean’s magazine's debates wouldn't necessarily be in French, would they? That is one of the challenges.
My constituents are two-thirds francophone. They consume a significant portion of their information from French media platforms. Our view is that this offers a basic guarantee of structured, fair and accessible debate. Different networks can carry the signal for free.
But again, if Paul Wells wants to organize 59 more, we'll see if the leaders want to show up 59 times at his debates.