A public office holder in this bill is a minister or a parliamentary secretary; they are not a member of the opposition. The real-life example is that we now have a Prime Minister and a number of ministers who are now public office holders but who weren't when they were in opposition. This has not been made up. Their executive assistants were with them for a number of years, left after the government was sworn in, and became registered lobbyists. I don't think that's right. It's a pox on both houses.
It's a matter of influence, and those people who worked for the Prime Minister and other people have influence. And that's what they're now selling to the lobby firms.
This would apply to us when we get back in government, folks.