For the two types of in-house lobbyists, the idea was that they were employees of the corporation. We have a situation that could be considered as similar for outside directors of associations or companies like this, because sometimes they're only compensated by their travel or meal costs. In that case they are not required to register. However, if they're paid—and we do have some instances where they are paid more than those basic travel and food types of costs—Revenue Canada considers that as income and so do we. We require those people to register as consultant lobbyists for that company.
You're absolutely right, the idea, as far as I understand it, when the act was put together--and a lot of lobbying legislation in the world is like this--was that the exchange of money or the idea of some kind of compensation was going to happen a lot more often than being able to convince somebody to lobby for you on a volunteer basis. I guess they were just looking at the general case as opposed to what was perhaps considered the exception.