Thank you, Mr. Chair.
From the testimony I've heard tonight I'm more convinced than ever that we're on the right track. I find it a little defeatist to suggest that because businesses are going.... No one is perfect, so no matter what rules we put in place, people are going to find ways to break them. But I think we're on the right track to having enforceable rules, strong oversight, and empowered parliamentary officers. I could be missing something, but Mr. Villemure was saying we need principles and values that would guide people and need to set out the values. To me that sounds like what businesses have—a mission statement for their employees.
But we've had this discussion with other witnesses on the question, can you legislate honesty? Is that what you're saying, basically—that we need this mission statement and that somehow people would be so influenced by it that it would impact upon their behaviour?
I think generally most people—and this was certainly what Judge Gomery found—are honest and do their job and try to do what we think of as the right thing, but there are those who are bad apples and, no matter what we do, are going to do the wrong thing. What this bill, Bill C-2, is doing is putting the rules and the oversight and the officers in place to do everything we can as a Parliament to prevent the bad apples from doing bad things.
I'd like your comment on that. What is that piece that's missing?