Status of Women committee  If you personally fund those expenses, it will not contribute to your contribution limit, so there's an advantage there, but if you choose to pay for them out of the campaign funds, then it would eat into your—

Status of Women committee  I'll let Jeff answer that.

Status of Women committee  That's a great question. We have spent quite a bit of energy removing barriers to the voting process. It's really been a question of capacity for Elections Canada in terms of where we could have the greatest impact as well, so really it's around capacity and perhaps investing a

Status of Women committee  We currently collect gender information as part of the process. When candidates make their application, they would consent to sharing the gender data, and we share that with the House of Commons.

Status of Women committee  It's for general elections, not for the nomination.

Status of Women committee  I'll defer to my colleague.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the members for inviting Elections Canada here to speak with you today. Thank you for having invited Elections Canada to participate in the committee's study on barriers facing women in politics. Elections Canada is an independent, non-