Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a fundamental voter rights issue. It has to be stopped. We've seen the damage in the U.S. and we've seen the damage here. It has to be stopped, and the only way to stop it is a serious penalty after the fact. You're not going to be able to reverse an election result based

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You just can't prove it. It has been tried in B.C. and in Ontario.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Are you saying the government cares in terms of the limits?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. That is why the rules are the way they are.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it's not fair. The tax receipt you get for donating—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you mean the disclosure of huge donations?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The thing is, as a citizen group, you have to set up a separate bank account. You can't use foreign money at all. The money would have to go into that separate bank account. Then, if it is used, the contributors have to be disclosed, even if the money came in before June 30. I'm

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Do you mean the third party in B.C.?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think Bill C-76 goes further than B.C. because of this special bank account you have to set up.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I haven't examined that in detail. I'm sorry.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the interim report that's required will help, because not only will the third party have to register but you'll get some indication of where contributions are coming from. Overall, I think Elections Canada should be empowered to audit and be proactively auditing these thi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A means.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Undermine it how?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think we have to start, if this transition is made, with a notice going out to anyone a party has information about, letting them know what they have and then asking for their consent to whatever the use the party wants to make of it, with a simplified form. That's how the tran