You're on the board of directors of the Albany Club, and the Albany Club was recently in the newspaper because of the arranged dinner for an event with the President of the Treasury Board. I'm looking at the.... It talks about it being a politically Conservative club for
“like-minded” people. We nurture our exclusivity and with that our privacy. The Albany Club is an important instrument of conservatism in Canada.
Now, obviously I haven't been invited to the club. I think one of the questions about lobbying is that it's who you know, right? It's the doors that open.
You have a club where it's exclusive. It's where you bring people together to make things happen. How do you ensure there's a sense of transparency as you speak about an accountability that if you set up a club where if you want to go and you want to meet with the right kind of people...? If I were a lobbyist, heck, man, I would have a membership there, because I could get a lot of business done.
How do we ensure there's a transparency element that you talk about?