Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  That's the great thing about them in the party.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, they know that we're there, but they don't spend that much money, though.

Information & Ethics committee  They arrived afterwards.

Information & Ethics committee  The executive director is the person who decides all this sort of stuff.

Information & Ethics committee  It doesn't really matter. I had no input. I didn't pick the radio stations. I didn't pick the ads. I didn't hear the ads. I didn't do anything about the ads. That was contracted out to Retail Media. If that's in the Elections Act, maybe the next time around that's what we'll have.

Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, sir. The headquarters of the Conservative Party is in Ottawa.

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course not. Why would I visit them? I'm a member of the Conservative Party in a riding. The riding reports to, eventually.... There's an executive director.

Information & Ethics committee  The Conservative Party would decide, have input into elections, finance them--the nature of the elections from a national perspective. It wouldn't be an Ontario thing: “Gee, we're only doing Ontario buy-ins.” If you look at the 2005 results in Quebec, we were lousy. We did a lot better in 2006.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm saying that the executive director would have a war cabinet, a war cabinet would report to whatever, and they would do various strategies. There are people who do media buys. We have a number of lawyers, we have a number of accountants, we have a number of corporate people doing corporate stuff, and that's what they do and that's what they're supposed to do.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it's not fair.