Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Further expanding on understanding the scope of the five-year prohibition on lobbying for designated public office holders, you noted that if a designated public office holder is working for a corporation, they can lobby eight hours per month. That's a problem; I agree.
If they're employed by an organization, they can't. If they tried to go out and lobby themselves in a consultant capacity, they couldn't do that.
What if they set up their own firm and hired people to engage in those very activities using their name, reputation and personal contacts? Would that be captured by the prohibition?