Information & Ethics committee  Essentially, I would say that the forms are pretty much identical between the MP code and the act. Why? It's because we ask for information about assets, liabilities, investments, companies and businesses. We ask about outside activities under both regimes; however, as the commissioner explained, there are more stringent rules with regard to measures that reporting public office holders, including ministers, will have to abide by versus a member of Parliament.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. Those are measures that are required under the Conflict of Interest Act.

Information & Ethics committee  Reporting public office holders must divest of their controlled assets. They also must step down from any business.

Information & Ethics committee  I can only confirm that we saw the information of what is owed from Navis to the numbered company, but we did not review an agreement per se.

Information & Ethics committee  Essentially, when the office is informed of a private company or any other company, the requirement is to disclose the numbered company, the registered company name or the corporation's legal name, its trade name. It doesn't matter right now, at this present time, whether they report one, both or strictly the numbered company.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't recall—

Information & Ethics committee  We were asking for clarification, which might be—

Information & Ethics committee  It was by email.

Information & Ethics committee  It was an exchange, so I—

Information & Ethics committee  I cannot tell the content, but there was a back-and-forth.

Information & Ethics committee  As the commissioner mentioned before, it was with the Prime Minister's Office.

Information & Ethics committee  Essentially, as we mentioned before, when we receive disclosures of sponsored travel, it's the members themselves who fill out the declaration. We review it to make sure that all necessary information and all supporting documents that are required under the code have been provided.

Information & Ethics committee  Not that I'm aware of.

Information & Ethics committee  It's definitely something I'm not aware of.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly administering sponsored travel in the same way as gifts is an issue that has been raised in the past for previous commissioners and even myself and my team. That would be applying an acceptability test to make sure that the individuals offering the sponsored travel are not placing the member of Parliament in a conflict of interest situation.