I guess I had thought that it might provide some comfort to whistle-blowers who might read this legislation and be thinking about reporting a safety violation because when I read this and read all the legal jargon and the notwithstanding the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and my identity can't be released unless that disclosure is necessary.
Who decides what's necessary? What is necessary? What constitutes an investigation? Which part is prosecution? I'm asking myself, are there a number of legal ways that my identity might be released? If I had that clause in here that insisted that unless my consent was given my identity wouldn't be released, that would give me a greater degree of comfort. I guess that's why I thought that something like this might make sense. I don't know if it exists in other Workers' Compensation Board legislation of similar nature across other provinces or territories, so that's not something we had a lot of discussion about at committee. Really, I think that would give informants more comfort and I think you'd see more people coming forward to report safety violations if they knew with a certainty that their identity was protected unless they could be convinced otherwise and convinced that it was, I suppose, in the greater interest to have their identity revealed in the course of investigation or prosecution.