No. I'm sorry. I've never said that everyone has bad intentions. What I've said is that you need to have a system that prevents, prohibits and penalizes conflicts of interest. You need a system that the public will have confidence in and perceive that it has integrity, and a system that actually has integrity.
There would be an exception, and thank you for pointing this out. As the Parker commission set out, you would not have to sell a family business, but you would have to recuse yourself whenever you're in the appearance of a conflict of interest concerning that family business with no exception—no “general application” exception and no “broad class of persons” exception.
That's what Justice Parker recommended, because of course you can't penalize your entire family by forcing the sale of a family business just because you've decided to enter into public service.
Otherwise, in terms of investments and shares and other financial instruments, the rules should be divestment, as the two federal government task forces that were set up to look at this issue in the last 40 years both recommended.
