Information & Ethics committee  Let's see, I'm chair of a community centre, I've been on a citizens police committee for 10 years, I work for a bank, I have my own trust fund, I do a variety of things. With most of those things, if you do illegal things, you're off. My job is financial services. We try to stay within the law.

Information & Ethics committee  I've toured jails.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, that's why I came.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I won't say “not to”, because nobody's going to say you're not supposed to appear. I would say, because I swore an oath, it wasn't necessarily encouraged.

Information & Ethics committee  In my function today, I'm a Conservative. Naturally, one of the things I'd have to do is go to corporate headquarters and ask them, “What do you think?” I don't really pay attention to a lot of this, mainly because I didn't receive a rebate. I still think this is a valid thing to do.

Information & Ethics committee  I received the letter probably from the treasurer. I'm not really sure of his name. I gave all my documents to Elections Canada; I don't really need them. I received something from what I call corporate--I mean headquarters, whatever headquarters is.

Information & Ethics committee  No, of course not; it wasn't until afterwards.

Information & Ethics committee  I think the only reason is that the Conservative Party looked at all the ridings that traditionally didn't spend enough cap. Every riding has a cap. My cap to spend is $80,000. I think when the Conservative Party went through every riding, we determined which ones didn't have cap and we said to all the ridings, “If you're not going to spend your cap, let's put it in more advertising.

Information & Ethics committee  You have to get more than 10%.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It was under 10%.

Information & Ethics committee  We got 9.65%.

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, for the past 30 years I've worked for banks, trust companies. We think laundering money is a damn bad thing. You tell me I'm laundering money; this is damn disgusting. Don't use those words about me; tell it to somebody else. Go to the laundromat to use those words.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it's held by Olivia Chow.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course. I believe that the Conservative Party thought about the long-term interest of the Conservative Party, and every other party could have done exactly the same thing.