I'm just trying to get my head around this. If someone has been doing a seven-year investigation and you never heard of it, obviously there wasn't much of a problem. It seems every time I turn around CRA is checking on my daughter's university tuition fees. I have to send forms all the time. I don't know when they start the investigations, but they're doing them. That's the nature of government.
We're talking about an ethical standard that Canadians expect, because we saw what happened under the Liberals and the sponsorship. Canadians are holding us all to a higher standard. I haven't seen evidence that you guys are getting pushed around here, and we haven't seen the RCMP follow through.
There's a standard for us, as public office holders, with the Ethics Commissioner. If the recommendation is that the Ethics Commissioner has to raise the bar, okay. But you don't respond to the Ethics Commissioner, because you're not designated office holders; you respond to the lobbying commissioner. So those are two different functions and we have two different relationships. And then there's the RCMP.
Explain to me how it has to be transformed to make it simpler for you so we still have accountability.