The Lobbying Act says that being late to register is an offence. Providing false information on the registry is an offence. Lobbying while unregistered is an offence. Lobbying while prohibited from lobbying is an offence. Everything is an offence.
If I'm in an investigation and I find that breach, I must send it to the RCMP. I just don't investigate every time somebody is late. There are five, six, seven, or 10 people late a week. I accept that registration for transparency purposes. However, I would like to be able to impose penalties, because, eventually, they are constantly late, and it's not good for transparency. Transparency delayed is transparency denied. We do need to improve our regime. Every breach of the act is an offence that I must suspend and send to the RCMP. They are not all created equal. I think we need to fix that.