Thank you, and please excuse the quality of my French. I have a lot of practising to do. Given the details that I must provide you, I will respond in English.
What you have received, first of all, are just the first two parts of our full report. It's simply because this was scheduled on fairly short notice. I submitted the full report just last Friday to the committee, so they will be translating all 140 amendments that follow from the sections you have, which summarize the areas that we see as still having key flaws.
In terms of the broken promises, it's hard to choose among them, but I think what is most offensive is to attempt to delete five rules in the current cabinet, ministerial staff, and senior public servants code, including the rule requiring that people act with honesty, and to bar the public from making complaints to the Ethics Commissioner about their own employees--to actually increase the bar. There is no legal bar now, and there is a legal bar being put in with this bill. I find that completely offensive.
Also, it is a violation of the Conservatives' promise, which was to allow the public to make complaints, not just politicians. That is not in the bill. Some people may think it is, but a member of the public has to file a complaint with a politician, and the politician then has to prove the complaint is valid, somehow—I don't know how that's going to happen without any investigative powers—before they can file with the Ethics Commissioner. It's totally offensive.
But the other areas, the secret lobbying, secret donations, secret rulings from ethics watchdogs--this overall secrecy--and the violation of the Conservatives' promise to include many key changes to the access to information system...all of those things are missing. As a result, Democracy Watch's position is that people who break the honesty, ethics, waste prevention, openness, and hiring and appointments rules in the future will not be caught, they will not be found guilty, and they will not be penalized.
So another ad scam is still very much possible.