Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it probably could have helped.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do get results. In the robocall case, there was a charge laid. Somebody was convicted.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it was.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes. If I may give you another example, there was the Charbonneau commission in Quebec, which looked at political contributions that were made through a straw person.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They got results really quickly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. They have the power to compel in Quebec.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. That's right. Our investigations take their time because people might not co-operate.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That issue, I guess, is really beyond the scope of our mandate.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, that's true. There are ways for us to preserve data. We can ask the court for a preservation order to force—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sorry?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's true, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be the case, unless there were somebody physically present in Canada who was in control of the information and whom we could serve with—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of election advertising? That's the prohibition—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Last night I think Mr. Hamilton said it was an interpretation on our part that foreign funds could be used for anything other than election advertising, but that's actually the wording of the section in the act. A third party can't use foreign funds to carry out election advertis