Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry, I think I'm missing something. Are you saying that I said that it wasn't his responsibility? I'm missing the point here. I'm sorry. Maybe I'm getting tired. Maybe I'll listen to it in English or something. Try again, please.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm just not with you. I'm sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  No, not any more than the proposals I've made to date. I don't think this report is a seminal change in the way we see the legislation. It's a specific case that was interpreted under the rules in the act, but I don't think much of anything new flows from it.

Information & Ethics committee  We have many guidelines that we've put out—advisories and such—and when we see problems, we have tried to give advice in a general way and to be as specific as we can, but there is a balance there. Sometimes you don't foresee the thing that's going to come up and you haven't examined every single instance that could happen.

Information & Ethics committee  —but I have said many times that they should allow the conflict of interest office to do guidelines without having to go through the procedures committee. The procedures committee can always negate them after the fact or something. The trouble is that I sent guidelines and gift guidelines to the procedures committee a couple of years ago, and nobody ever responded.

Information & Ethics committee  The encouraging thing about it is that this particular circumstance is exposed, and it explains the rules, and now they're noticed. Every time a report is done, it enhances the understanding of the rule.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and that's probably the best benefit of one of these reports: it enhances the understanding of the rules.

Information & Ethics committee  Oh, I don't know. We also open many, many files on which we don't proceed to an investigation.

Information & Ethics committee  In my report, I give the numbers and I give a general explanation of what sort of thing something was. I don't release the names, because I didn't feel that it was worthy of an investigation. Sometimes I take some time to look...or I did. I'm sorry; I'm talking in the present.

Information & Ethics committee  I looked into the circumstances behind it, even if it came in from a private citizen or from the media. If I saw it in the media or if somebody told me about something, we would follow up to see whether we thought there was anything to it—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.