Okay.
One of the objectives is to incite and encourage people from all workplaces to enter public life, be it partisan politics or the public service. Great care must be taken not to put up barriers in that regard.
There's a practical side to it. You never know which party leader is likely to become prime minister. In elections, there are 15 parties and you never know for how long. Prime ministers and ministers are in office for a few months, often for a year or two.
If we want to encourage people to enter partisan politics, we mustn't introduce a rule that is too strict, where a person must absolutely abandon all of their economic and financial gains. It's not all black and white. Instead of trusting them, in the long term, we're going to lose people with experience working in the private sector. We're going to go back to the days when most members were lawyers.
