Currently, board members of organizations have to register if they lobby for their organization, but their organization is deemed their client, which is awkward. If there are four board members on an organization, all four of them have to go and register—four different registrations for each of them—instead of having the organization do it and say, “We have four more members who lobby for us.” Instead of having one registration that would encompass all the lobbying that's done on behalf of that organization, we have possibly the organization and then four different consultants.
This is how it's dealt with in the provinces. It's a problem with the act right now, so it makes it very—I don't want to say dysfunctional, but the type of information that you get about the organization is fragmented. They are already required to register, but they register individually instead of being deemed employees of an organization.
