Thank you very much.
That was spoken like a true ethicist. I know my friend Mr. Villemure had a very accomplished career prior to this and is certainly a value added to the committee.
I'm still looking at the gaps in the legislation.
I've heard time and again that the advice.... I want to make it clear. There was a reference to client-solicitor privilege, yet you've admitted, I think—I've taken this from your testimony, at least—that you're simply providing advice and are not quasi-judicial in terms of the way you investigate these matters outside of formal complaints, as we've learned today. You said it depends on whether or not a friend provides the gift, yet I'm referencing subsection 2(3) of the Conflict of Interest Act, where the term “friend” is not actually defined.
In your opinion, would this be a glaring oversight in legislation that again leads to too much ambiguity about whether somebody ought to be considered a friend or an interest?