Mr. Speaker, that was a very wise ruling on your part. I will try to remember it when I attend the next farm auction as well.
He indicated he favoured the removal of the tiers for the different categories of lobbyists for the purpose of registration. This subject came up some minutes before the member started his speech. I have to repeat a question I asked of another hon. member.
The Dairy Farmers of Canada and a number of other groups testified before our committee. They indicated it was unfair to apply rules to them. I can imagine it would be unfair to apply to the Dairy Farmers of Canada and to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Red Cross the same kind of rules we would apply to Earnscliffe or S.A. Murray Consulting or any one of those consultant lobbyists. The member has advocated we should do this.
Does he not agree that for the kind of groups I have identified the requirements should be different? If he agrees with me, why is he making this criticism?