And we can meet until we're blue in the face, but ultimately what Canadians want are some results here.
First of all, I've never had a single constituent who has come into my office--and I hold about 15 meetings a week with constituents--say that this is an intimidating experience so they need a lobbyist to help them do it. And I've never met anyone who has said to me that it would be that difficult, if you were a paid lobbyist, to write down a record that you met with a politician, a public office-holder, and to simply submit it to the lobbyist registrar.
I'm a public office-holder myself. I'm going to be the one who has to uphold the law on my end, and I can't see how it would be so difficult to look through my schedule every month and ask myself which 10 paid lobbyists did I meet with, and are they up on the website?
You make it sound like these filings are going to be giant documents. They're not giant documents. You're just recording that you met with a politician, and you did it for this reason and at this time, for this number of minutes. That's really all you're being asked to do here, and I don't see how that is such an enormous encumbrance.
Maybe you can shed light on it.