Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
On the lighter side, Mr. Shapiro, when you were being introduced, the Hallelujah Chorus was going in the back here. Given the tremendous amount of exposure that you've had recently, I thought that was appropriate, poetic justice actually.
Mr. Shapiro, you've talked about moving from a regime that you have been familiar with, which is not a statutory but a values-based regime. I infer from that that it has allowed you to play a little bit of a different role from time to time in advising individuals with respect to their possible conflicts and so on. In fact, members can come to you and ask for your advice with a certain degree of confidentiality. In moving to a rules-based and a more statutory regime, you have indicated that there should be a continuity of that values-based regime by having an ethical mission statement--call it what you want--that would still give you that element of advisory, intercessional role.
My concern, and I wonder if you would address it--and I think the committee should be concerned about it--is that in a rules-based regime, if the balance is too far in that direction, then it's possible that the natural justice, the opportunity prior to huge publicity depending on your reporting responsibility, would really deny a member their opportunity to have a day in court, so to speak.
Could you make a comment based on your experience? Could you suggest any way the legislation could be written in such fashion that this possibility would not occur?