If I may, Madam Chair, I'd like to offer a contribution to the discussion. It actually comes from the experience of my father in the 1990s, when the Reform Party came to Parliament.
Prior to that, meals were subsidized in the parliamentary dining room. Parliamentarians didn't get any free lunches in the lobby, but they could go to the parliamentary dining room and pay a reduced price for the meals they ate on the Hill. When the Reform Party came to the Hill, they did a big political song and dance about that and ended it. It was shortly after they ended it that the Reform Party began advocating for free meals in the lobby for MPs. That's when and how it all began.