Information & Ethics committee  Our mission is to promote lower taxes, fair taxes; accountability and ethics in government; Ontario and Canadian culture; transparency; and personal freedom.

Information & Ethics committee  That's the basis of a lot of the work we do. It's predominantly online-focused, if not exclusively. We have strayed away from online advertising and political messaging. Prior to the last Ontario election, for example, we ran some TV ads in a local market in Ontario. For the most

Information & Ethics committee  It's predominantly political, but there may be cultural matters that we discuss. It really all depends, usually, on what's in the news. It does go beyond politics, but it's predominantly politically focused.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of our fundraising activities, we've solicited donations online, from small donors from across Ontario to larger, more institutional donors who are interested in our messaging. We do a wide variety of fundraising. Sometimes it's just online campaigns where individuals wi

Information & Ethics committee  The translation said “from nations”; I'm not sure what it meant. All of the funds that we utilized in Ontario with respect to the provincial election were funds from Ontario entities or individuals.

Information & Ethics committee  We spend it predominantly on advertising. We also have a staff of video producers, so we have to pay their expenses. We have office overhead. There's the advertising aspect. We also have a staff of individuals and human resource needs that need to be funded as well.

Information & Ethics committee  We've received donations of as little as five dollars and donations in the tens of thousands of dollars. Just to be clear, madame, our financial disclosure was recently filed with Elections Ontario. They haven't posted it online yet, so I think it would be jumping ahead of thing

Information & Ethics committee  I'm doing this off the top of my head because I don't have my list in front of me, so I apologize, madame. In terms of individual small donors—that would be individuals who are not affiliated with institutions—there would probably be, off the top of my head, several hundred. I

Information & Ethics committee  One can analogize us accepting contributions from persons who like our message to political parties accepting funds from institutions back when it was legal to do so federally. No, there's no quid pro quo. With respect to Ontario Proud, we accept contributions from people from a

Information & Ethics committee  I want to emphasize with the greatest degree of clarity that we never have and never will. Ontario Proud and the Proud organizations are 100% domestically funded and will continue to be. We're frankly, no pun intended, proud of that. We don't need to solicit funds outside of Cana

Information & Ethics committee  No. We're not able to do that because of the various legislative regimes in each of the provinces. Each province has specific campaign and election financing legislation, so each of the Proud organizations is a separately incorporated and separate entity. For example, with respec

Information & Ethics committee  In all of the text messages that were sent out, Mr. Angus, Ontario Proud was identified. These were not anonymous text messages. The telephone calls were not anonymous—

Information & Ethics committee  The vendor used that name. They used this: “It's Olivia, from Ontario Proud.“ It was our campaign. We had sent text messages out. We had identified clearly that it was Ontario Proud. To answer your question, Mr. Angus—

Information & Ethics committee  I want to be clear. The provincial NDP ran an almost identical text message campaign.

Information & Ethics committee  Are you saying that third parties that participate in political discourse are illegitimate?