Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I'm going to direct my questions to Mr. Perrault.
The government incorporated in this bill your recommendations around amendments to the Canada Elections Act to require third parties to use funds exclusively from individual Canadian contributors for regulated pre-election and election activities, subject to an exception where they could still use their own funds provided the contributions to the third party in the year prior to the pre-election period were 10% or less of the third party's revenue.
For third parties where this exception would apply, would they be bound by the same requirements as third parties not captured by the exception with respect to contributions, specifically to the extent that a third party subject to the exception used contributions for regulated activities? Would those contributions only be allowed to come from individual Canadians?