Most not-for-profit associations don't pay their board of directors, because they don't have money to pay their board of directors. Most of the individuals on the boards I've worked with in the past are volunteers. They're volunteering their time because they're passionate about their industry. They're passionate about growing their industry and ensuring that their industry is successful. I do not think that those individuals should need to register. They lobby on a very infrequent basis.
If we have a lobby day in Ottawa, for example, to bring the board of directors in, and they meet with 20 members of Parliament in one day, that's maybe the limit of the advocacy or the lobbying work that they do in one year. I don't think that those individuals should have to register. They are volunteers. It opens a Pandora's box. If we start to look at volunteers as professional lobbyists, how does that apply to the coffee shop in your constituency or the small business in other constituencies, etc.? We start to go down a slippery slope, in my opinion.