Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Rathgeber, for coming back.
I understand the spirit of what you're proposing in your private member's bill. I know that you've done a lot of homework and a fair bit of stakeholder work on this. I want to give you a bit of my perspective, because I come from the province of Ontario and I'm very familiar with the Ontario government sunshine list.
Again, I think the spirit of the sunshine list may have made some sense, but I think it's completely unworkable now. It's way beyond the scope of what I think the original idea was, and it's actually costing the Government of Ontario a lot of money to administer. As a member of Parliament, I'm not really into creating more bureaucracy in Ottawa. I'm for transparency, but I'm not for greater levels of bureaucracy being created.
You're not proposing an actual sunshine list that will be released each year listing the thousands of people all earning $160,000 now, similar to what members of Parliament are paid. That's not what you're talking about, right? You're not talking about this massive list every year that someone has to compile to send out thousands of names of people who work in all kinds of different government departments, such that if they have a salary of $160,000 plus $1 and higher, their names are going to be published each and every year. That's not what you're proposing, are you?