I agree completely.
The current act is totally silent on any obligations whatsoever for the registrar to do this, so it's sort of volunteer work that we've been doing. It's very hard to get money from Treasury Board if you don't have something explicit in your legislation that says you're supposed to do it.
That's one of the reasons I find the Bill C-2 wording is helpful, because when you go to the Treasury Board folks, they say, “So, Michael, are you supposed to be doing this? It doesn't say anywhere in your act you're supposed to be doing this. Why aren't you just in your office taking registrations?” It will be very helpful to have language that says explicitly that the commissioner has to go out and do this. I agree with you completely.
Although those types of audiences are drinking out of a fire hydrant at the time--there's a lot to learn--it at least exposes them to this idea, and if we can leave some print publications behind or links to our website, I think those are absolutely the right things to do, Mr. Chair.