Thank you.
Thank you so much, Commissioner, for coming. It's a pleasure to have you back. I share your sense of urgency. We really need to get the government to direct our committee to look at the Lobbying Act.
Normally the questions I bother you with are questions of loopholes and gaps in the act, because we need clarification. For example, when Mr. Kielburger spoke to our committee, he said that it was legally impossible for him to register to lobby. We asked questions about the multiple meetings the Kielburger group had with government regarding the millions of dollars in contracts, and he said that as a co-founder volunteer, it was legally impossible; he couldn't register.
You sent me a letter on March 19 of this year confirming that there's nothing in the act to preclude someone like Mr. Kielburger, as an individual, from registering, and that he could do so for the purposes of transparency. Would that be a correct interpretation of the act?