I don't know what Mr. Levine would say on this, but my answer is—and I've said this before—that I believe the federal Conflict of Interest Act is among the gold standards. By my count, there are five different ways of defining conflict of interest. This act uses an opportunity-based test, which I think is one of the best.
The last point I'll make is that, even though the federal public sector doesn't use the same definition as this act, the policy on people management and the directive on conflict of interest established by the Treasury Board uses, in my view, a definition that's inferior to this one. I think this act is the gold standard. When I go to other places, like municipalities with a municipal integrity commissioner, I point to this definition as one of the leading definitions.
