That's right.
I've furnished the committee with amendments, and you were gracious enough earlier to say that you would move them on my behalf. Certainly, as everybody knows, there was never really a cap in my bill. It was a notional cap that gave the minister discretion. But as we know, I've yet to come up with one single example where anybody was ever deregistered for excessive pay.
I saw from those who profit from charity that they were trying to rev up conductors, artists, against my bill, pretending that the minister would deregister an orchestra, or a hospital if a brain surgeon was paid an excessive salary. I wanted to take that phoney debate off the table. My bill was never about orchestras. It was never about brain surgeons. It was never about any hospitals. Basically, Imagine Canada went on CBC and claimed that the minister had this power to deregister for salary excess, though no one has ever been able to come up with one single example.
So I realize that the problem is that deregistering a major charity.... First, why should the cause be penalized if people misbehave? What the minister really needs to do is to have full disclosure, and then at some later date I'm hoping he'll explore the possibility of giving himself the power to ban the individuals who are actually abusing public trust, without hurting the cause. When you see a multi-million-dollar payout to a pitch man, the minister should be able to ban the board and not the hospital. That's what the OSC does to a company, and charity profiteers really shouldn't be able to hide behind the cause.