Dean Del Mastro at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

February 2nd, 2012 / 12:15 p.m.

Conservative

Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON

Very good.

I'll start with the Public Affairs Association of Canada.

Mr. Capobianco, you have two recommendations. You wouldn't pick just one of them; they'd have to work in unison. One is to reduce the five-year ban on lobbying to one year. The other is to reduce the 20% threshold.

If you simply remove the 20% threshold, you're really saying that anybody who has been in a position in which they've been deemed to be a designated public office holder can't work at all in these firms for five years--unless, of course, you reduce the five-year ban. Is that not correct?

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