Yes. It's about just making sure that the rules are consistent and easily understood across the board among all organization, in-house, and consultant lobbyists. I think Charles's point about the exemption for the small individual who might lobby once in a blue moon.... The issue is also a question of fairness. Someone who has worked within a system here very briefly could be captured under the five-year ban in the same sense as, say, the minister of a particular portfolio, even if that particular individual had no background or involvement in that particular portfolio. There's a question of balance. In the interests of transparency, we should eliminate the 20% threshold across the board.
On February 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.