Madam Speaker, this is not the time to be talking about Bill C-2. We are talking about another very important matter today, the financing of federal political parties.
I would like to hear the views of Reform members on this issue. As long as we do not have an act similar to the one which exists in Quebec, we will have situations like the present one where there are allegations of influence peddling on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada and maybe the office of the President of Treasury Board, someone of some importance within the government. You could say he controls the purse strings. Moreover, he is the federal minister responsible for the province, an interested party, as the hon. Minister of Human Resources Development was saying.
I believe that it is high time we adopted a modern piece of legislation that would guarantee that big bucks will not be what matters, nor the very legalistic point of view of those who make decisions like the one we had this morning. It would guarantee that these people would not be the ones who decide which measures are passed here, in ways that have nothing to do with the very essence of democracy, I migh add.