It's important to think about what you want to get out of the Lobbying Act and whether the regulations are meeting the goals that you have. I don't think it's so much about Prime Minister Carney. To me, this is not about him and whatever his holdings are.
That's not the issue. The issue is the fact that there are people coming into the public service who have been recruited to do this work that they have been recognized as uniquely suited to do, at a time when we need to build these skills very quickly, not over a period of three years where you can hire and scale up and all that. They want to bring them in right now.
If we're doing that, what do we expect of these people? Are we saying that you have to observe a post-employment freeze, a cooling-off period before you go back to your bank? And if so, they're probably not going to want to do it.
