Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Walsh, earlier, you encouraged us to invite the Commissioner of Lobbying so we could get a better understanding of the connections, the sanctions, and so on, relating to lobbyists. I am not perfectly familiar with the Lobbying Act, but I know that a registered lobbyist has to file a report every three months and declare the names of the public office holders they have met with. Ministers and members, among others, are considered to be public office holders.
If the Commissioner wanted to ask the member in question whether she met with the lobbyists who received the document, would she be entitled to demand evidence from the member, to review her emails or determine whether there had been a lobbying relationship between her office, her assistant, herself and the lobbyist in question? Would the Act allow that?