I'm just listening to the rest of the interpretation before I jump in.
Yes, the transparency piece is really what we're trying to get at with the Lobbying Act. I start from the perspective that people are acting in a way that is ethical, and lobbying is an ethical activity. It is completely healthy in a democracy for people outside of government to want to influence government and to want to inform government about how their policies and their decisions would affect people. I think that's the essence of lobbying. It's okay to want to influence government. In fact, it's better if people want to try to influence government. We have a healthier democracy that way.
The point of the lobbying rules is to make sure that people understand what sorts of opinions are coming to the government and to make sure that the space around the government is not secret, so that we know when we see a government taking a position and going a certain way, we have an understanding of who's spoken to them about this, whether they have been heavily lobbied by one side or another. If there's a sense that maybe the decision was directed in an undue way by somebody who's had more access to the government, perhaps, than you would think they did, we want to make sure that it's not a secret. It's about shining a light on all of it so that people understand.