Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's really interesting. Another question I have is around the debate. I just need this clarified. When you talk about the unintended consequence being perhaps a longer debate, can you just clarify that for me? I would have had to read it more often to try to understand, but in what context does that happen, and where is the breakdown that we might need to look at?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. One thing said earlier was that some of these are voluntary compliances and some are structures put into place and finding that sort of space in-between.... Thank you so much for this presentation. This is not how my brain normally works, so I apologize in advance if my questions are....

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that answer. Right now I just want to clarify this, as there isn't a clear process. If a report comes from the commissioner and it has recommendations for change, what has happened in the past? Is it just something that sort of slides by and doesn't really attach itself to anything or does it actually have a process?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Okay, that's really good. It makes sense to me that we would do more study before that actually gets.... Okay. Thank you. I believe that's my time, Madam Chair. I really appreciate it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate this opportunity. Through the chair, I'd like to thank both of you for being here today and sharing this with us. One of the things that I don't know we spend enough time doing, as parliamentarians, is having public discussions about the way we govern ourselves, the rules that are put into place and how they are followed and how important those things are to our democracy.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're good. I sent an email response. I'm fine with the calendar.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Through you, to the commissioner, I want some clarity. I listened to some of the responses, and one of the things I think I heard and I just want to confirm was that as things change—and the world is changing quite rapidly all the time—you cannot say, hey, this might be a problem, so everybody watch out for this.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Just to clarify—and I know my time is almost up—that is what recommendation six is really about.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. It is.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madame Chair, and through you, I've heard clearly from the commissioner that there is a lot of room for increasing the confidence of Canadians in their public institutions, and I think that's something that as members of Parliament we should always be having vigorous conversations about.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you so much for that. I think it is something that we should be looking into. Through the chair, I'm also just curious, Commissioner, about training. The last time we were speaking together, we talked a lot about training and its importance. Of course, we were seeing a lot of new MPs coming into office and they were doing a lot of training.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank him for the answers, through you. I am also curious about your recommendation 3. I think it's is really interesting to think about how to make sure that what the member of Parliament is doing outside of their parliamentary duties is compatible.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I want to let Mr. Dion know that every once in a while—I don't know if the clerk can look into this—your audio is clipping out for short periods, and we're not hearing you. I haven't lost the content of anything yet, but it has happened a couple of times.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Through you, I'd first like to extend my gratitude to Mr. Dion for today's information and his well-thought-out recommendations. I have a few questions. One is around receiving gifts. We've had a lot of good debate around it, but I want to recognize that for some gifts, there's a cultural sensitivity to receiving those gifts.