To make the point, so Canadians watching and people at this committee can understand how serious this could be, we have examples here now on the disclosures for the Prime Minister's lobbying, where they're more than double, where he's met with business more than double the amount of times as the previous prime minister. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 59 people with whom the PM is connected have become the heads of Canada's largest corporations.
Our concern, and I think the concern that Canadians would share more broadly, is we need to be confident that exemptions under clause 208 don't simply reflect exemptions for the prime minister's friends.
Can you commit today that every exemption granted under 208 will be publicly disclosed, with full legal justification before doing so?