Thank you very much.
Please don't interpret this as being a lack of interest. I think we could have you here for several hours.
My second question is with regard to the charter. As you know, there are fundamental rights to participation in section 3 of the charter. You've looked and you think you've found a way that has a minimal impact upon this, yet I come from the belief that if we are going to limit Canadians' charter rights, then we should do so through legislation. I am a little concerned about codifying this without having that larger public debate, with all due respect to the extensive consultations you organized.
This really comes down to the soft part as to what is a significant influence and what isn't, and I think we need to be very careful about limiting people's charter rights. We have this idea that lobbyists are these evil folks. I think they are just people who are trying to help organizations. Some do a lot of great work for NGOs and for people who don't normally have a chance to have a voice, to try to get the attention of MPs, legislators and public office holders, who are all over the place.
Rather than having this change through guidelines, or codified through guidelines, do you think it would be a better move to have it done through legislation—that is, actual changes to the Lobbying Act—so that Parliament could have an opportunity to discuss this?