Thank you, Madam Chair.
The commissioner has said quite a bit in regard to family and friends and has even addressed the issue when questioned about handing over investigations to police.
I am a little concerned, and I wonder about the nature of relationships, because the role of being a member of Parliament is a complicated one, and it's one that is best understood by those who have held the role. Your job is to try to pass judgment on those of us who hold this role and to keep us in line, according to the rules that we ourselves make.
I am concerned about the roles of growing influence, of friendships—through the guise of friendships, not necessarily family—that foreign state influence might actually have. I am wondering if your office has given any consideration to any changes or amendments to the code where somebody might be using gifts or influence or some other type of furtherance of a benefit to a member of Parliament, or might even themselves be an agent of a foreign government put in place in our democracy. Have you given any consideration to that?