Yes, but as I understand it, the penalties provided for in the Conflict of Interest Act are really administrative penalties for failure to produce documents or delay in producing documents, which is not the case at all in the code. I would not see myself imposing penalties for a delay in production. There is no equivalent volume: in Quebec, there are 125 elected officials and also chief of staffs, but that is very few. So I don’t have a problem with non-production of declarations or delays in producing these declarations.
