Thank you, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses. It's good to have you here today.
I have a couple of questions that will relate predominantly to your own acts and how you enforce or how you regulate. The other day we had a couple of witnesses before us, and I think at the end of the testimony we walked away with a lot of confusion more than anything else, between the Lobbying Act, the code, and the Conflict of Interest Act. I think it's extremely important that as members we identify it in black and white.
Commissioner Fraser, you said, for the farming friends, that we don't want them to step in something soft, and clearly we don't want that to happen either. I think we have to get to a place where we truly understand the rules as they exist, and firm them to a place where everybody understands what those ground rules are.
Commissioner Morrison, you discussed meeting annually with the MPPs, and I like the concept. I think it presents a great opportunity for a new member to truly get a grounding, and certainly for you to read that new member and get an understanding of who you're going to be dealing with for the next number of years.
I wonder if we could talk a bit about gifts. You talked about barbecues. Some of the standards, and you've seen some of the recommendations in our act.... I wonder if you could just talk to some of the parameters that you locked in, in Ontario, and perhaps, Commissioner Fraser, in B.C., that put in hard numbers. What are your thoughts, for example, on the gifts going from $200 to $30? Are we going in the right direction? Have we gone far enough? I wonder if you could give us just a couple of minutes on that.