I'll just reiterate a bit of what Mr. Jackson has said.
It would apply to a large multinational oil and gas company every bit as much as it would apply to the Tides Foundation or anybody else. I think the real question is one of integrity. I'm not talking about the integrity of the members here. I'm talking about the integrity of the electoral process and the election. I think we should be ensuring that integrity to the best of our ability wherever possible, while allowing people who ought to be allowed to be involved in the discussion of an election in Canada—which is, frankly, Canadian citizens and Canadian voters—and it should involve financing only from those very same interests.
Just to read a few things off, the Tides Foundation, as of 2024, has net assets of half a billion dollars. In 2024, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation had assets of $8.5 billion. The Pew Charitable Trusts' consolidated total assets are $7.5 billion. Why would we want any of that money interfering in the Canadian election process if it's not sourced from Canadians, every bit as much as we wouldn't want money from a large multinational conglomerate doing the same thing?
I think it's a very reasonable, well-intentioned and, frankly, patriotic amendment to the legislation. I would just encourage my colleagues to reconsider their position, given the fact that out of all the witnesses we've heard from, we can find far more suggesting that this is a good idea than those finding a problem with it.