I can start, if you like.
Provisions called post-employment rules are included in the Quebec legislation. In our case, the longest period is two years. For example, members of the cabinet and ministers have a prohibition of two years.
As part of the Lobbying Act review, we would like to slightly increase the period or to have a different scale, but not exceeding three years.
If the five-year period that's currently in the federal act achieves its objectives, that's great. Personally, as a regulator, and having discussed the matter with several other former public office holders, I feel that a period of five years is actually long for someone who has just left a position.
The commissioner for lobbying in Quebec has no power to make exceptions. Therefore, I have no ability to adjust the period or to reduce the requirements described in the act.