Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member opposite on his speech.
There is one issue that this bill does not address but that keeps coming up in the House election after election, at least since Stephen Harper's time. I believe that my colleague was a member of Parliament himself then. In any case, I am sure he is familiar with that time. I am talking about the system of political financing that was done away with by the Harper government at the time.
Unfortunately, we see that, sometimes, people with deeper pockets can contribute more to certain political parties. They may even be engaging in some form of influence peddling. That is one of the things this bill seeks to correct. The House leader for the Bloc Québécois proposed eliminating the tax credit for donations to political parties. There would no longer be a tax refund, and the money saved would be used to re-establish a form of political financing, which would mean that the measure would not cost the government anything.
What does my colleague think about that?
