Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you have a source for that? I'm not aware of that instance.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm calling for equal application.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Due fairness is my opinion. Simply put, due fairness.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It means you will have a populace that accepts the integrity of the voting system when the populace buys that what you're doing is correct. When you talk about securing data and things like that, I am concerned that sometimes governments, and therefore legislation, do move at the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a very fair assessment of the current state of play, given this bill. It is not going to achieve the stated purposes of the legislation, if you accept that those stated purposes are really what's going on with this piece of legislation. Third parties are a clear and prese

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Theoretically, you've increased spend limits in this pre-writ period, so presumably the mischief is more problematic coming into the next general election now—if that's conceivable, because it was already terrible in the last election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To answer your direct question, it was very evident, very early, that Leadnow was engaged. I believe it was an outside media source. It wasn't one of the political parties that identified this cheque coming up from a San Francisco organization, which Leadnow readily admitted it h

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. The Conservative Party lodged a complaint with the commissioner of Elections Canada.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you mean in an election setting? I don't know that the Fraser Institute is participating in an election.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not aware.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm aware of no such thing.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll take your source, if you have one.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. Read my statement; review it again. I say eliminate all of it, every last inch of it—eliminate it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am the legal counsel for the Conservative Party of Canada, and I thank the committee for the opportunity to appear here this afternoon. There is one particular feature of Bill C-76 that I propose to address, and in fact, it's an omission in the legisl