To move to something I could talk about at the very end, what is terribly important in this act, because of the types of situations you've talked about, is that public office holders know what lobbying is and what the obligations are of lobbyists. When somebody is talking to them, they have the reaction of saying--and more and more are, by the way, because they call my office about this--“I can't find you on the registry. Have you considered whether you should be registered or not?”
Without being cute, it takes two to lobby: it takes somebody who is willing to be lobbied and it takes the lobbyist. The education part.... When I go before the Senate I'll be talking about this, if they choose to invite me. Another critical power or obligation that's given by Bill C-2 to the commissioner of lobbying is the explicit mandate to go and tell public office holders what lobbyists are supposed to be doing.
You're right: unless there's a sensitivity on the public office holder's part, I may never find out about that. So it's very important that we and public office holders know what the obligations are. It would take a hundred people like me in an office to ever sort that out, so I need to use leverage, and education is the way to get that leverage.