Overwhelmingly, the business of cabinet comes in as proposals from ministers, so you have to start in the ministers' offices of people who are making pitches to cabinet through cabinet documents and papers. They should be attuned to flagging and identifying any potential conflict issues if the minister has screens. Then, on the receptor side, at the Privy Council Office and in its various teams, there might be 200 or 300 items that come in a year. If you know what the screens are, you can simply look for them. If it's a shipbuilding case and you own Canada Steamship Lines, it's pretty obvious. It's those sorts of things.
I think it does get into the area of how clear it is, as opposed to a perceived conflict in which there might be some second- or third-order effect, but you have people who are trained and expert in these issues and have accumulated experience in exercising this function. Sometimes you would recommend, okay, I think the minister here should go and talk to the commissioner.
