That's why we're recommending that you need to synchronize the process and harmonize the language in the act so the two commissioners.... Commissioners can only administer the language they're given in the act. The standard in the Lobbying Act is “a real or apparent conflict of interest”. The standard in the Conflict of Interest Act is for “a real conflict of interest”. So lobbyists are being held to a higher ethical bar than public servants and politicians, because we can get hauled up if there is an apparent conflict of interest.
On February 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.