In the first couple of years in the Ontario system, the first commissioner, former Chief Justice Evans, in one of his reports said he didn't like the number of petty complaints that were coming from members on both sides of the legislature. So he recommended that the parties have their own system whereby they go to the whip and the whip decides which allegations really are not trivial and ought to be raised publicly. That system seems to have worked, so that's something that might be tried here as well.
I think Commissioner Dawson has been very good at looking at complaints she gets to make sure they reach a certain threshold. There's a certain amount of information that has to be provided by the complainant before she will investigate, and a number of allegations she has refused to investigate because there was just not enough information. I think that's very helpful too, but I think working through the parties and the whips is a very good system to make sure that just the serious ones get through.
But to me, the most important part is preventive. Let's not talk about what we should do once the cat's out of the bag. Let's try to keep the cat in the bag in the first place and make sure that members understand the rules including if they are amended to include apparent conflict of interest. If every member had to meet with the commissioner or a deputy commissioner, they could ask what an apparent conflict of interest is and how, in their situation, they could avoid that.