Those two principles, transparency and access to government officials, are very important. Those are the foundations of the act.
In terms of some of the recommendations that have been put forward, there are opportunities for increasing transparency, and they need to be looked at carefully to understand what all the different considerations and implications would be. For example, a lot of the recommendations that have been put forward by the commissioner have effects on each other, and they compound the different impacts that would be hitting the lobbyist population. We would definitely need to carefully consider what the cumulative effect of the administrative burden would be in moving forward in certain regards if we wanted to try to increase transparency.
The other thing is that we need to be very mindful of what the value of additional measures would be for increasing transparency, looking at that information carefully to see, as the saying in English goes, whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Would the value of that additional information really be worth the cost of implementation and the potential administrative burden for lobbyists?