I'm finding I'm spending quite a bit of my time sorting out the appropriate interpretation of the substance of the act. So I'm somewhat loath to get it out too early, to say too much, until I have a really good feel for the limits of some of the provisions in the act.
However, having said that, I have been out making presentations to, for example, the session organized by the Library of Parliament some months back. My officers, on a regular basis, go out and meet with individual clients. As far as the public itself goes, there have been one or two occasions, but not a lot yet.
I think the main vehicle for reaching the public, of course, is the website, and there are two things that have been an issue in getting that up and going. I had left some of the material from the previous regime up there for a couple of months, and I gradually came to realize that most of it was not quite there, particularly in light of the changes in the act. So I effectively stripped that website a couple of months ago.
There are two things I need to do to get it restocked, and one is to get the structure of the website settled. We've worked on that, and I think we're pretty close to going on that. In fact, we've changed the structure already, and we have a few things up on the website, but we're working, one at a time, on some of the major subject areas.
The first one that will go up under the act is gifts, and I'm hoping to get that up within the next week or two. We had some staff issues on our telecommunications things too. So I'm hoping to get that out in the next week or two.
With respect to the MPs' code, unfortunately I can't put anything up in the way of guidelines at all because the guidelines have to be approved by the procedures committee, and we're trying to get our forms approved at this stage. Then we'll move on to our substance.