The Bruce Carson situation points out two things. First, the media found it out, not the Commissioner of Lobbying. It's part of the scandal that no audits are being done to find out who's even meeting with ministers. I mean, that would be a very simple thing. The commissioner currently has the power to do that under her general enforcement administrative powers, but she's not. She's sitting back and waiting for the media to discover situations.
Second, if someone is going to profit greatly from a contract, it doesn't mean you need to have a penalty that equals the size of the contract to get them to register, as long as it's a significant penalty. You heard the commissioners in three provinces say they already have that power, and the Ontario commissioner wants it.
A penalty of $25,000 is adequate, I think. You can't go too high or it becomes quasi-criminal, and then you have an issue of whether an administrative tribunal can, under the charter, levy such a high penalty. So there is a dollar amount above which you can't really go, or you'll get into the problem of having an administrative tribunal with the power to levy that penalty.