When I go home this weekend I guarantee you a couple of people will be in my office saying they think they fit the criteria for the economic action plan--which is more propaganda than action, but that's another issue. In any event, they talk to me about this project. Are they lobbying?
So I talk to the minister or write a letter to the minister. Is the parliamentary secretary considered in the same light as I am? I'm sure people who go to a parliamentary secretary think they're getting greater access to the minister than if they go to a backbench MP or an opposition MP. But they're treated in the same light. Is that what you're telling me?