There are also, as you know, pre-election and election-period spending limits for third parties.
What this bill would do—I'll repeat—is this: Third parties wishing to participate under the act as a registered political party could, during the election period, use funds from Canadians and permanent residents. If those funds are 10% or less of their overall revenues, they would be able to use those revenues, with reporting requirements providing transparency to Elections Canada so it knows what the source of those funds are.
For a very large third party that generates a lot of business, that would be part of their financial statements, and that might raise some questions at Elections Canada in terms of where those funds are coming from. They could be legitimate sources of funding.
I don't know if that answers your question.
