Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Rest assured that I will be moving a motion. I just wanted to outline what our concerns are. I have been looking to speak on this for quite a while.
Just to finish what was said by Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation:
Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing politicians to go to their political conventions. Political parties have a lot of money. Politicians have a lot of money. Normal working people don't. So this was wrong and the money needs to be paid back.
Mr. Franco Terrazzano is always a very frank speaker.
He's not the only advocate in this area who has spoken out on this and who is very cognizant that if there is a loophole, it should not exist. We also heard from Duff Conacher, the co-founder of Democracy Watch, who also called for the loophole to be eliminated.