Information & Ethics committee  In terms of the pattern of workload, of course there are years we can predict that workload decreasing, as you mentioned, with the exception of last year. Without that exception, we can probably predict at least a near pattern or estimate that there is an overall increase. When was the initial amount in terms of a workload?

Information & Ethics committee  Wow.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks to my colleagues' very good questions, I believe we have a good understanding of what your role is and the lobbying registry—or at least I understand much more, being a temporary member of this committee. I want to back up to one of the anomalies that happened and try to better understand that.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks again to our witness for sharing her plans with us here. One of the plans I want to address is your annual report and some of the work that was in there. I know, given the pandemic, that workers and employees in the public service have taken on an extraordinary amount of work, having to adjust their lives, having to change everything, find child care, do everything from home and be a teacher at the same time.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm really curious about how those first engagements went. Can you provide some feedback as to what you heard in terms of your engagement with those folks in the first two rounds?

Information & Ethics committee  Next week....

Information & Ethics committee  It's a huge undertaking, I'm sure.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of what you heard from these responses, I understand that this consultation is not yet complete, but in terms of the third round and the planning that would likely have to go into absorbing those recommendations, how long do you think before Canadians can expect to see a new code being released?

Information & Ethics committee  In my last 20 or 30 seconds—I apologize for the time—what can we anticipate some of those changes to be?

Information & Ethics committee  Interesting. Thank you very much.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to thank our witness for being present with us today in person. It's a nice touch to be able to know exactly the folks who are doing such great work in our public service. Thank you very much for that. You mentioned a few really interesting points related to the review.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for that. Given that experience and the understanding that other offices may be doing this, there's a slight difference in mandate, I would assume as well, so maybe it's not necessarily an oversight in that case. What concrete examples, in your experience, can you provide of prior situations where a lack of immunity impeded the work of the commissioner?

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for that. I guess we'll move to a different item related to the Lobbyists' Code of Conduct. You mentioned it at the very end of my colleague's good questions. It's here in your department plan for this current year we're in. There's a renewal and modernization process that I understand is required for this code of conduct, and there are some key initiatives.