It's certainly a shadowy area. All we know is that a lot of the unsavoury things associated with the sponsorship scandal, we assume, took place under that same kind of rubric of CIO and Communication Canada, and the Guités and the Collets, etc. We've always assumed there is a lot of opportunity for abuse within the awarding of the public opinion research as well.
Mr. Owen cited the Auditor General's report, but you made reference to oral contracts being given or oral reports being presented. One of the first observations that the Auditor General made was the appalling lack of documentation associated with what she was finding, certainly with what Mr. Guité was doing.
Is there an apprehension that Bill C-2 may in fact create more of this oral culture and drive more work underground as we go forward with improvements to access to information?