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Procedure and House Affairs committee We found it: $1,550. It's a reasonable amount. You could have said $2,000 and I would have said yes, that's okay. I don't think that members of Parliament as a group can be influenced by a $1,500 contribution.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee That's why I don't agree with the need to reduce it. If it were $50,000, that would be something else, but $1,500, to my mind, does not do it, because you need so many $1,500 contributions. The concern one would have about $1,500 would be about a particular group of people agre
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee It was a pleasure. Thank you very much for the opportunity.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'll take it under consideration and get in touch with the chair.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I appreciate the invitation to do that, to think more about this.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I don't think I can, no. This is where you're dealing with something in the law: this is the step, and at that step you do this, and under that step you don't do it. You cannot have flexible steps all the time. It makes it impossible to run anything. Five days is it. At least you
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'm in favour of that. If the media wish to attend, I certainly think they should be able to attend and to record what is happening, or at least write down what is happening. I'm not sure that I agree that they should be able to take actual footage. If that's in the statute, that
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee That's very favourable; that's very good. They can decide if they want to be in attendance or not.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee Well, pass-the-hat events are already under the statute. They're allowed, and I don't see a need to amend that. It's very hard to visualize a political party organizing a major financial event and saying, “under $200 and we'll have all of these outstanding figures from the party
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes. Making it five days means that people should have a very definite idea about who will be attending. I don't mean the attendees; I mean which functionaries, which ministers, or which party leaders or whoever. That would be part of the notice. Then the media would perk up and
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'm agreeing with you, and I'm also saying I don't know what the solution is.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I found a solution to the first one, but I didn't find a solution to the second one.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'll give you a call the moment I'm not able to sleep. Have I got that right?
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, I'm thinking $5,000 for an individual candidate, something that makes the person think that there is a price for breaking the law. I don't think $1,000 quite does it, frankly. I think $5,000 starts people thinking, especially if they also have to remit double the amount of m
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Procedure and House Affairs committee The $5,000 is. I don't remember them all, by the way, but I do remember that $5,000 for certain infractions.
October 5th, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Kingsley