I'll say two things in reply.
The first thing I'll say is you're quite right to make these concerns known if you think they are important to you and your constituents. I think the things that happened in September 2024 had a pretty good litmus test subsequently. You say this was common knowledge and everybody knew it. If it was common knowledge and everybody knew it, I guess that factored into some decisions that people made at a later date.
The second thing I would say is there's a difference between going around something and having it not apply to you at all. It would not be a good idea to have an act apply to people who are not in the public service. You may call it a circumvention, but the threshold is whether or not they are in the public service.
I am not privileged to any information that may have been shared between the two individuals you mentioned, but certainly there are other people in that office—