Mr. Speaker, last week the Prime Minister announced the appointment of an ethics counsellor. The ethics counsellor is merely a slight expansion of the assistant deputy registrar general's previous role; the same job, the same person, a new name.
The lobby reforms changed tier one and tier two lobbyists into consultant and organization lobbyists; the same role, a new name.
Does the Prime Minister or the deputy really believe that these cosmetic changes will solve the problems of influence peddling in government decision making?