Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the witness. We are very grateful to him for being here at the committee.
We've already met with the Commissioner of Lobbying. She came to testify before the committee and told us that, ultimately, it was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that conducted the investigations.
Have you read her recommendations?
I just wanted to make sure, because in recommendation 17, “Additional compliance measures”, it says: Amend the Act to allow for a range of additional compliance measures, including mandatory training, administrative monetary penalties and temporary prohibitions on lobbying.
In her testimony, the commissioner said that it was a bit tiresome because she doesn't know when the RCMP closes a file. She doesn't have the information to tell her that the RCMP has closed the file. She says that she would really like to know what is going on and that this way of doing things bothers her. She has to contact the people she investigated two, three or four years ago. Very often, organizations no longer exist or people are no longer there. In her opinion, there would be a concern about the principle of natural justice. She doesn't know what else to do to be able to investigate.
What are your thoughts on that?