Thank you.
As well, you do your work with us, as parliamentarians, and you honour us with your presence here and by explaining your job to us. When you met with the New Democratic Party caucus, you used the expression "practical examples" to describe the best way of looking at the Act from the practice point of view. That lines up very well with the work we are doing here today. Apart from our interest in your job, we have to determine, with regard to Mr. Ullyatt passing on confidential pre-budget information that he was not entitled to pass on, which has been admitted, whether there was reasonably diligent oversight of his work.
We now have to look at the precedents in parliaments on the British model: Australia, New Zealand, and of course England. Mr. Lukiwski rightly said that we are awaiting the results of your investigation, in the sense that we are eager to know them, but this committee's work does not depend on your study. Properly speaking, we do not need to wait for your work, to do our own.
In terms of best practices, or, to use your term, exemplary practices, are there things a reasonably diligent parliamentarian should do in terms of their staff, when it comes to communications with lobbyists? I would like to know what methods you recommend so we can be sure that the communication, whether by email or otherwise, is registered. As elected representatives, we have a duty to report. But you told us earlier that there were best practices in this regard. Would you be so kind as to tell the committee what they are?