In the interest of time, and with the three witnesses here and your experience, I'll perhaps ask you to provide the answer in writing, and our clerk or analysts could follow up with your offices on a couple of other things on topics we've been talking about, one of them being the endorsement of other elected officials at other levels of government. Do you have rules or protocols regarding, for example, a provincial member endorsing an municipal candidate? If there are or if there are rules around the use of resources and your titles around that, that would be appreciated.
Another thing that would be helpful, I believe, in our deliberations would be around when your office starts to get involved in the acceptance and price points of gifts, not only the acceptability of a gift but the public disclosure of that. Do you have a minimum limit at which members would go for declaring or asking if a gift is appropriate or not, not only for public disclosure. At what point they should consult on the acceptability? It would be appreciated to have your written comments on that.
Another thing to ask about is the definition of “friends”, which we've been struggling with. I would be interested in knowing what your definition of “family” is in your respective jurisdictions, but we're struggling with the concept of friends. I joke that I have a lot of friends, I feel, and a lot of people who think they're my friends, and I'm struggling with the.... The government benches are not agreeing right now with my population of friends. Do you have any definition of “friends”? Have you considered it? Whether you have or have not, perhaps provide some reasoning or experience you would have on that.
Finally, Madam Chair, through you, any information you could provide on letters of support for individual applications to government agencies, individual constituents or a request for a service from the government, if you have any advice and experience on that topic, I think that would certainly guide us in our deliberations of the report.
Madam Chair, in the interest of time, I'll leave it at that.