I've only commented on three areas of the bill. I regard those areas as extremely important, but none of them imposes additional rules, as I understand it. What they do is provide additional process. Ms. Fraser was right: there were substantive rules in place and they weren't followed; there were reporting relationships that weren't followed; and there was a reprisal against Mr. Cutler, which has highlighted the lack of a process.
So on the whistle-blower point, there is now a process, and you heard my comments on it.
On the respect for the rules, there is this codified process, where the deputy minister is accountable before Parliament and must answer to Parliament in relation to the administration of his department. Would that change the outcome in the sponsorship scandal? It's very hard to tell in any one particular case what would happen. But I think what would certainly be the case is that the deputy minister would understand that on a regular and continuing basis he has a statutory obligation to answer, and that might—might—have made him more careful to ensure there wasn't the reporting relationship between Mr. Guité and others that there was.