That's duly noted, Chair. I wasn't even close to the line though in expressing myself with my parliamentary privilege, which I have every right to do. We've just listened to Mr. Cooper make all kinds of false claims for the last two hours in his diatribe, in his false narrative, claiming all kinds of things about colleagues of mine, all kinds of things about the Prime Minister and all kinds of things about our party that are all false.
They're all false statements, Mr. Berthold. I sat here and listened to them, so you can listen to me now, just as I did respectfully to you and your colleagues.
Let's just be honest. The Conservatives don't seem to want to deal with helping our seniors. That's what the substance of this bill does. It helps seniors at long-term care facilities access their right to vote in the federal election and makes campus voting for students a reality, ensuring that those things become permanent. There are all kinds of other aspects to this bill that increase voter participation, something that historically Conservatives don't like to support. As we've seen, they seem to always vote against or try to cut down things that increase voter participation. They'd prefer to have people disenfranchised so that their likelihood of success is improved somehow.
Let's also be honest about the news breaking yesterday on foreign interference in the Conservative Party leadership race. I'm sure that's why the Conservatives don't want to deal with the substantive issues in this bill that deal with foreign interference. There are numerous aspects of this bill for that, including a ban on disinformation intended to disrupt the conduct of elections and removing the time frame limit for offences involving impersonation and false statements. Boy, that would open the Conservatives up to a number of different infractions.
The bill ensures that malicious actions using artificial intelligence are captured. It also safeguards against untraceable and difficult-to-trace foreign donations, prohibits aiding or abetting a violation, and other things. There are a number of other ways in which this bill deals substantively with foreign interference.
Putting safeguards in place should be of interest to all of us, but of course the Conservatives would rather do something else, which is go on a fishing expedition. They don't want to deal with the substantive issues that this bill includes. I wonder whether a ban on disinformation is really what they're concerned about, because that seems to be what their entire narrative is based around. Everything that seems to come out of the Conservative Party these days is based on disinformation.