Of course. I'm trying to look at this through the eyes of, as you said, the average Canadian who is seeing this and says, “Wait a second; if somebody who's lobbying the government, lobbying a minister, lobbying the Prime Minister, is a friend, there might be some sort of exclusion for that activity if they give them a nice gift—if they buy them a nice watch or whatever.”
You say it's if it's an egregious case, but the reason it's a concern is that the Prime Minister, in your report, attempted to use this exception to say this was all okay, that somebody he hadn't had any contact with for 30 years, since the age of 13 until the time he became leader of a federal party, whom he saw at his dad's funeral....