Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
Through you, Chair, I would like to begin by directing my questions to Mr. Metatawabin.
I have to tell you that I really appreciate that you took the time to participate here today. I found your intervention and your opening statement extremely interesting. It gave us more insight than I think we've heard from some other witnesses today.
I got from you that the lobbying code as it is in Canada actually levels the playing field among lobbyists, and that to change it in the way that has been proposed would not level the playing field. It would actually do the opposite, when, as I understood from the lobbying commissioner, the intent with these amendments was to level the playing field. What I got from you was that it would have the opposite effect.
Can you confirm and reflect on that for me?