Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Cormier, for joining us today.
For matters such as this, it's helpful to look at what other countries do and to learn from their best practices. I've looked up what they do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and France. They all have elections, and they all have leaders' debates, but none of them has a government-run debates commission. The debates are all done by the networks or the private sector, all at no cost to taxpayers.
I'm wondering why Canada needs any of this. Why don't we hand the entire matter over to the private sector and save the taxpayers $3 million?