Yes, and I apologize, because my answers on this are going to be unsatisfactory to you. It has been a policy choice of the government, at least at this point, not to recommend grassroots lobbying.
The only thing I would reference is that when thinking about grassroots lobbying, people might have different ideas about what it is. They often will attach it to stories they've heard, particularly notorious instances. Let's say they've heard an example of a grassroots lobbying initiative by an industry, and they're concerned about whether that's transparent. Also, grassroots lobbying happens on behalf of other groups as well, such as not-for-profits and so on.
My advice to the committee would be to just be expansive in examining that. I encourage value neutrality in that decision-making. Beyond that, yes, because it's not a feature of British Columbia, I don't have a whole lot of expertise to offer. I expect that the OECD folks will have something to offer on that.
