Thank you.
Welcome to all of our guests. It's great to have our familiar faces and friends here from the Labour Congress. I appreciate you joining us today.
I have to share with you that I am a bit torn on this particular issue. I'll declare my bias in that I don't see the Labour Congress as being a lobbyist in the same sense of the term as the private sector, for-profit and pay-to-play-type scenarios. I don't see workers and citizens electing and sending people to come and fight for workers' issues being the same as professional lobbyists whose only objective is to have clients and make money.
My first question is to Ms. Vipond. Do you see all lobbying as being the same, or, in your perspective, ought there be a consideration—or, perhaps a precision, as our friend Mr. Thurlow has suggested—that might provide clarity around different types of lobbying?