Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No, that's okay.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We could, for example, put together information on the current spending. As I mentioned before, some of these are not new agents of Parliament. What we could do is give you the current spending of some of the agents of Parliament who are addressed in legislation. I'm sorry, we and the Treasury Board Secretariat working together would do that.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  And I won't, thank you. I do want to clarify a number of those cases. For example, there will be a new commissioner of lobbying, who will be an agent of Parliament. But in terms of bureaucracy, we already had a registrar, so basically the registrar is becoming the commissioner, so that's not new bureaucracy.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That may be something, again, that you'd want to ask the Chief Electoral Officer. He keeps records of what the spending is and what the source of the spending is.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I personally am not a lawyer, so I would defer to the lawyers, but my policy instinct is that it would present a problem, because third party advertising remains a way for those organizations to contribute to the process.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  One reaction is that when the Chief Electoral Officer is here, he's probably in a better position to answer that question, because he actually maintains the records. But my recollection is that it's a pretty small number.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Well, as I say, it's a pretty low limit, $150,000, and it turns out to be a pretty small number of organizations that engage in spending anywhere close to that amount of money.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  None.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It would be a very small campaign.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  They're shaking their heads, so I assume that means no. I think there's a global number.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  This is something that, as you know, the Chief Electoral Officer will be doing. And I mentioned earlier that he'll tabling a report. As I understand it, he'll be tabling a report in the fall to the procedure and House affairs committee on exactly that--what was the impact of Bill C-24, the previous changes.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's correct.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  They can spend $3,000.

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I don't know the answer to that question.