I would say at the outset that without clear definitions of what we're talking about in terms of communication, you're going to run into problems. Is the communication a registerable communication or not? I think we could bring some clarity to that.
For example, it's not registerable if I ask you for information. Every citizen has the right to ask government for information, free and unencumbered by this legislation.
I think the committee might want to focus in on exactly what you're trying to accomplish, and be clear on that. Then some of these questions may answer themselves.
Right now I think that's going to create a big mess, because people won't know. The general model that seems to work—and you are on the other side of the fence—is that groups will come to Ottawa on a certain day, they'll book a number of meetings with MPs, and they'll go through their spiel, and that's registerable and the communication reports are filed. Then they generally have a cocktail party or reception that night, and you potentially have constituents there and you go. You are now bringing what happens there into this framework. So I would be very careful about that one. Unless you can figure out what the mechanism is to get everybody clearly understanding the rules and when it is registerable and when it is not, we're either going to have a lot of unregisterable activity going on or we're going to flood the system with bits of information that really aren't getting us anywhere in terms of our transparency goals.