Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Rathgeber, for coming back. We're very interested in discussing the issue with you. Your bill is on two tracks and sometimes there have been two perceptions of it. One is our concern about interference in CBC's ability to do its journalism and interference with its independence. I think we all certainly agree that we don't want to have that a bill, and we talked a bit about that before.
We haven't had a chance to really talk, though, about the larger issue of transparency and accountability and its importance to taxpayers. In the New Democratic Party we believe that the ability of citizens to hold their government to account is dependent on knowing what is happening within government and having information on basic issues like the salaries of people who play key roles.
Right now, we're been talking about salary disclosure for civil servants. Do you believe the same principle would apply to political staffers?