Mr. Speaker, I would like to touch on one issue in the short time I have and ask the member what his beliefs are.
He touched on one particular area that is very fundamental to our system and that is the spending limits and the balance between private and public in our system.
Our friends opposite like to think that the best system is to have all private sector funding with no limits. This is one of the major faults in the American system where all the scandals occur. I have many friends in the American houses. My riding borders on the U.S. and we meet on a fairly regular basis. They tell me that the system is so bad that they have to spend almost all of their time raising funds in order to be able to compete to get re-elected. They get millions of dollars in order to compete.
I would like the member's opinion on why it would be a good system to have in Canada rather than the one we do have.
I will give you one quick example. Because of my financial situation, I could never have been elected in a system like that because I could could never have competed without the public system. I would like to know what his comments are in that regard.