CHAIRPERSON
I don't think it's required anywhere in the Act that the applicant has to show that he had strong political feelings, one way or the other, whatever affiliation he was to.  What is in question is that the offence or the act which forms the subject of the hearing is an act associated with a political objective.  So technically you could get somebody who had no political leaning at all still being involved in an act which associated with a political objective. You don't have to go to the actual perpetrator and say: "Okay, he's got strong political feelings, therefore he's okay, whereas this one, he hasn't got much political interest, therefore he can't apply".