I agree it should be Canadian money participating in both policy-making processes and elections. Don't forget that half of Canada's largest thousand companies are completely foreign-owned, so they should be very strictly limited in what they can do. In terms of citizen groups, lots of citizen groups have programs. They should be able to receive money—international money—for those programs, but when it comes to money to influence policy-making processes or elections, it should be coming from Canadians, and the proposal in our written submission will show how to do that.
On November 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.