Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to follow up on where Mr. Dolynny left off for a bit. I may have mentioned in my general comments about passive restraint and that I don’t think it’s working. On top of the fact that there’s an increase to this budget, and I see in this department or this section alone under directorate it’s about $100,000. But there was a transfer from HR to Finance of a number of employees. So in spite of the fact that we had a section transfer out of this department, the department still went up overall some $680,000 and in this particular section $100,000.
I really have to say, and I think it applies to every department in this government, that passive restraint really isn’t working. In this particular case, I don’t see where passive restraint had any effect at all. I’ll leave that as a comment. If the Minister wants to try and explain it to me, that would be great, but I haven’t heard an explanation yet.
My question has to do with safe disclosure. We have set in place a Safe Disclosure MOU with the union and my understanding is that there hasn’t been great uptake on that provision, which is unfortunate. I would encourage the employees to take advantage of it; that’s why it’s there. I believe we were advised that there was going to be some work done on legislation.
I’d like to know from the Minister where legislation is in the grand scheme of things and what work has been done. When can we expect to see a legislative proposal and/or the legislation itself? Thank you.