Well, no. In fact I'm proud to be a Conservative, and there are many Conservative lobbyists. But I also live and work in Toronto, which is a Liberal province. I do very well there as a lobbyist. I think at the end of the day, what it comes down to, if you are working in the government relations profession, is that you firmly believe in trying to ensure that businesses and organizations that want to know and want to understand governments come to you as somebody who might understand the process and might be able to help them through that. I think that's why we're standing here before you: to say that we believe lobbying rules should exist. I think the clearer and more transparent they are, the better we will be able to do our jobs.
Lobbying--and we've made this clear in our submission--is a noble profession, and we're very proud to be lobbyists. I think whether you're Conservative, Liberal, or NDP doesn't really matter. At the end of the day, you're providing some service for businesses or organizations that want to work with government. As long as you abide by the rules and you do what the rules say, I think it's perfectly fine for people to do that. At the end of the day, if I were a candidate, I would either be an MP sitting on your side of the aisle or I'd be over here sitting on this side of the aisle. The idea of whether or not you belong to a club doesn't matter. It's all about trying to do good work for organizations that want to do work with government.