To the point you raised about what our opinions might be, it's important to have public funding for political parties. I would be in favour of reinstating the per-vote subsidy. I was sad to see that go. I think it's important for parties to have some base of funding to be able to compete and keep the lights on. There have been a lot of negative implications, frankly, of the struggle to try to recruit donations. You can donate up to about $1,700, but most people don't donate anywhere near that, and you end up having to compete for these tiny bits of money. That's a lot of what leads to some of the toxic rhetoric we see in politics a lot of the time, but that's a whole other thing.
It's 100% in the public interest to have public funds directed to political parties, but I completely agree with my colleague: If that money is then being used to turn around and give a tax credit for money that should never have been given in the first place, then, yes, it's part of the problem.