Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for being here and appearing before the committee for what I think is an important statutory review of the Conflict of Interest Act.
One of the things we're finding out as a committee is that there are some similarities and also some conflicts and differences between the Conflict of Interest Act and the Lobbying Act. I'm going to assume that both of you learned gentlemen are familiar with both pieces of legislation.
The committee has found that the term “designated public office holder”, which is housed within the Lobbying Act, has many similarities to the term “reporting public office holder”. If they were to be more aligned, if we were to get a better definition so that they were covered in both acts, which act do you believe would maintain a better single, symmetrical definition of those individuals?
Do you want to start, Mr. Giorno?