As I said a couple of times, I think you have to look at the circumstances, at all the surrounding circumstances, to decide whether you should be applying an exception because they're a friend. That's why I'm suggesting that it might be a very good idea to take that exception out. If you didn't have that exception in there, then in most cases if it were given to you by a friend, it would not reasonably be seen to have been given to influence you. I think the addition of that exception creates an unnecessary burden of decision, and not only that: it's insulting to the people who.... It's not nice if Mr. Trudeau has to say “The Aga Khan is not a friend of mine”, and he liked him. It just is the wrong.... I think it's not helpful.
On January 10th, 2018. See this statement in context.