Thank you.
To our knowledge, no one has told the board about any concerns of this kind.
Moreover, we have to make some distinctions regarding the additional responsibilities to which you alluded. Under the Public Service Modernization Act, the board has been given new responsibilities with respect to the processing of human rights complaints. It used to be that the board no longer had jurisdiction as soon as human rights were involved in something such as, for example, a grievance.
The Public Service Modernization Act and the new legislation will ensure that the adjudicator responsible for hearing a grievance will now be able to continue exploring the entire issue. Basically, it was decided that this was an issue of labour and labour relations law and that things were occurring in the workplace. If a grievance pertains to both human rights and disciplinary measures, the board now has the authority to continue reviewing the file. This is what I was referring to when I spoke about an expanded mandate.
Clarification is required for certain aspects found in Bills C-2 and C-11. For the time being, that matter does not fall within our jurisdiction. As I already explained, we have a great deal of experience in retaliation measures. The 33 files we are currently studying were submitted pursuant to the Canada Labour Code. However, we are also analyzing retaliatory measures associated with practices occurring during the negotiation of collective agreements. We are responsible for this aspect as well as for analyzing various files.