I don't believe there's such a thing as a volunteer lobbyist. I believe in free speech. I believe in free assembly. I think having the nexus to “paid” is something that I can prove. If I were working for the RCMP and I talked to the café owner that Mr. Hardy mentioned, I wouldn't be able to tell if he was lobbying or not or if he was just complaining that there was a dog on his lawn. If he was being paid to do the work, that's something I could actually adduce as evidence in a court of law to allow for the offence to be established.
Should we differentiate on size? I think we do differentiate on size. The reason I think this is that as part of the commissioner's test, it's not one person, one man or woman; it's the collective of all those employees to the equivalent of one full-time employee. I think that is an aspect there.
Personally, I think as long as Parliament defines what that time is, the community will respond to it and recognize it for what it is.