Yes. We don't actually know whether we've had a situation like this in the past because there was even more secrecy before. Certainly, Paul Martin owned a shipping company and had many other investments. We don't know the extent of them.
We do know the extent to some degree in this situation. When it's the Prime Minister, you have another problem. All cabinet ministers, all cabinet appointees and staff, serve at the pleasure of the Prime Minister. When they have these conflicts of interest, does the cabinet not also share those conflicts of interest? How do you escape them?
Again, that's why the only solution is divestment, actual divestment, not these sham blind trusts that aren't blind and ethics smokescreens that just hide conflicts and don't prevent them. For the Prime Minister, it's even more important, because of the Prime Minister's power over other public office holders, who, again, all serve at the Prime Minister's pleasure.