The cooling-off period of five years in the Lobbying Act, as far as cooling-off periods go, seems to be on an international scale about as long as I've seen generally. There are some jurisdictions that don't have cooling-off periods at all, and you kind of wonder why. The five years in the Lobbying Act I would see as.... In terms of a reasonable imposition on someone's professional life, I would not make an argument for going beyond five years. I've not seen other jurisdictions that we would compare ourselves to go longer than five years.
Obviously, there are some things that are prohibited in the Conflict of Interest Act that don't have an expiry date. They don't have a cooling-off period. As you know, you're not allowed to go from working on a file in a minister's office to coming out, switching sides, and working on the same file on the other side, ever. There's no cooling-off period for that. You just don't do it. Apart from that, I've not seen anything longer than five years.