Indeed, you are right, that is the main difference. There is the tribunal, the third parties, what I was going to call the trivial matters, in other words the $1,000 giveaways handed out regardless of what was actually done, etc. However, even if Bill C-2 is adopted relatively quickly, I still think there is a long delay between Bill C-11 being enacted and a situation making its way to the tribunal.
For example—and I am not judging how quickly the work was done, because it was complex— I lodged a complaint with the Commissioner of Official Languages June 10, 2003, and I got the final report May 4, 2006. So, if you think about the time it would take between someone blowing the whistle tomorrow morning and the case being looked at by the tribunal—and this is assuming Bill C-11 was enforced and the process was established—Bill C-2 would have passed, and been amended.
Regardless of all the good will any Integrity Commissioner may have, I do not think that in the space of two weeks, he would be able to carry out the entire process and get people before the tribunal.
Am I wrong here?