That's a really good question. The reason why it is so is that in our association, specifically, more so than the GRIC, we're based in Toronto, so a lot of our members are firms that do work with Queen's Park and also with the City of Toronto. We've been lucky, in that the lobbyist registrar of the City of Toronto has been very eager to work with us, and in fact a couple of members of our board worked with her at the time to come up with the lobbying rules for Toronto, and now Lynn Morrison, the commissioner for Ontario, has also been engaging with our association.
To your question specifically, I found different levels of lobbying and lobbying activities within the three jurisdictions. I think any way or any how we can get all that to be somewhat more streamlined or focused on a lot of similarities would be helpful to our profession.
I know it's different because how you lobby Toronto City Hall is totally different from how you would lobby Queen's Park or even Parliament Hill. So some differences have to be accounted for from that perspective. I'm encouraged by the fact that all the lobbying registrars, from the City of Toronto and other municipalities across Canada as well, and certainly Ontario, are looking to our associations and other groups to try to get the common denominator of lobbying rules.
They're looking at Ottawa specifically and asking what's working best with Ottawa, what's not working best with Ottawa, and our advice was the same, which is that the five-year rule is quite a hindrance, as is the 20% rule.
I hope that answers your question.