Mrs. Karen Shepherd at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

Then the way I would answer that is this. Are you a designated public office holder? Yes. Are they communicating with you about a registerable activity? Yes. But was is arranged? The answer would be no.

So according to the regulations, that particular communication would not need to be recorded in the monthly report. What the lobbyist would need to be determining is whether they needed to file an initial registration.