You mentioned that your post-employment was academia. You didn't really have any direct interaction with the provincial government after you left their employ, but should former reporting public office holders be prohibited from going to work for what I would call non-partisan agents or officers of Parliament?
We're always having difficulty with this distinction over who you go to work for after you leave here, and are there differences? If you're going to work for a “big lobby firm” with big commercial contracts, is that different from going to work for an NGO or becoming an independent officer of some agency?
Can you give us any advice from your perspective? Can we make those distinctions or is that just too difficult to do; it's just better to have this as the rule? You said five years is maybe too long. Let's say, two years is the rule and that's it, it keeps things clear and simple, or do you think, if the committee proposes recommendations to the government for amendments to the current legislation, we can write legislation that might be able to distinguish different areas as to what reporting public office holders would do in their post-employment?