The issue here is that this is a law of the nation. This isn't a regulation; this is a law.
The law was put in to ensure accountability and prevent corruption. Yet you guys wanted to be able to go off the grid on this. I can see why: You clocked three contacts a day and 220 meetings. That's staggering.
I get that it was the first year of the pandemic, but this past year you had 17 meetings with the Minister of the Environment or his staff, 25 meetings with the Minister of Natural Resources or staff. In addition with Imperial Oil, you had 17 meetings; with Suncor, 25 meetings; with Exxon and Natural Resources Canada, 12 meetings. I'm counting about a meeting every three days through the year.
The reason we have the lobbying registry is so that we know how much access—the insider passes—you guys have. That's pretty extraordinary. Don't you think that with the fact that you could keep your oil production going, you could still respect the law of the country and report all of these massive numbers of meetings with key ministers?