No, I have nothing that goes over $100, which means that the meal is around $35, or $36 or $40, if the hall rental and the rest of the expenses are included, so the other $60 or so is a contribution. People do not contribute $60 to my campaign expecting to get any financial gain back.
I feel that such accusations concerning the people of Quebec and the people of Canada from sea to sea are totally inappropriate. Whether a person runs my local convenience store, has an engineering practice in my neighbourhood, or a company in my riding-most of them being very small, although there are one or two big ones-whether they have contributed the $5 or the $60 I referred to before, or even if they are one of the handful of people contributing maybe $200 in the last campaign, they are all honest people, in my opinion. Or at least I believe they are.
Unless it is proven otherwise, I believe that the Canadians who contribute to my campaign, like yours, like the campaigns of everybody else, merely want to help the democratic process in order to have good government, and we will have another good Liberal government, as we have had this time.