Thank you. Just on this clause, it is a clause that committee has spent a lot of time trying to clarify and improve and the existing legislation the way it reads certainly provides, I felt, less protection than the one we have here. It is definitely an improvement, but it is a comfort area and I don't know if we could have improved it too much more because you're balancing conflicting legislation and a number of issues. So, I just want to speak in favour of this motion.

Also, I just want to take a moment to clarify my request to have the next government consider territorial-wide whistle-blower protection legislation. I just wanted to make it clear that I did not mean in any way to impugn the conduct of any of the employers or major corporations in the Territories. We understand that the whistle-blower issue has become more fashionable since the scandal involving Enron and such south of the border.

For me personally, I just want to have the government look at it to create a process that is independent and legislated apart from one particular employer or anything and it will cover protection for anybody who works anywhere. It won't just be in private companies. It will be government and everywhere else. I think there's a positive advantage to be had to have an independent process, because for me as an MLA it's very difficult when somebody comes and brings me an issue that goes on in a private company or private work setting because we don't always have the authority and power to get involved in a way that our constituent might want us to.

So I see this as some sort of ombudsman process and independent process, most importantly. I am sure that if this sort of legislation is introduced, the legislators would look at all of the competing interests and rights of employers and employees and all the other stuff that you have to consider in bringing into reality a law. So I just wanted to make that clarification and qualification and just to be more clear about what I was suggesting. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.