I guess I share a slightly different view, in that I think there's a reason for the two offices being separate. They were together at one point before 2004, when they were separated, and it was a court case that talked about institutional bias.
There are different things that would have to be looked at as well. When you look at something like public office holders, I believe under the Conflict of Interest Act—I don't know the exact number—it's 2,000 or something, but there are 350,000 of those covered under the Lobbying Act. There are some differences. There is some overlap.
What I've seen in the city of Toronto where there have been two bodies—and the same thing with overlaps—is that they have worked together with a memorandum of understanding. As I understand it, that has worked well in terms of doing investigations concurrently or jointly.
My recommendation before merging the offices would be to look at how the offices could work better together. Maybe that's something that could be studied during the legislative review, whether there are specific fixes that need to go into the act to allow the two bodies to maintain their independence but to work on combined interpretation bulletins, or investigations, which require you to do things in private but might have different focuses.