Actually, there are two international standards. As I mentioned, politicians write the rules for themselves, worldwide, and generally have written rules that facilitate these kinds of financial conflicts of interest. However, the international standards that Canada signed on to, under the United Nations Convention against Corruption, state that conflicts of interest need to be prohibited, prevented and penalized. You don't have a law that does that now. You know about it; MPs have known about it for 28 years, which was the first time I presented on this. No one has done anything about it.
If you look at the polls that show only about 20% of Canadians trust politicians, you shouldn't wonder why. You know a law allows for financial conflicts of interest and unethical activities. All the federal parties have known about it for 28 years, in detail, and they have not closed any of the loopholes. In fact, they've increased the loopholes. Why would the public trust politicians when they know that they're leaving these kinds of loopholes open.