Mr. Speaker, I picked out the spending limits as the parliamentary secretary just noted.
You will recall in a recent state election in California someone with private money spent $30 million, all presumably earned legally. I have no reason to believe he did not amass that fortune himself. He was allowed to spend $30 million.
The strength of our system is exactly what the parliamentary secretary has pointed out. We control in a transparent public way how money is collected. There are limits on donations and the way it can be done. At the other end and equally transparent we control spending.
To go back to the Reform member who spoke previously, in both cases it is entirely transparent and there are mechanisms to deal with the wrongdoing in the event something goes wrong.