This is not as well informed an answer as I would like to give. It partly comes out of a certain conservatism on my part with regard to changing institutions. It also comes out of a sense of economy, that you have institutions that can do more than one thing. You have to be careful what functions you combine in institutions. I've led three seminars on whistle-blowing for the Ontario government, and Manitoba has a whistle-blowing law in process now: they're placing it with existing institutions.
As we multiply the institutions and these oversight and appeal bodies of various kinds, we're proliferating them, and it just seems there's an existing organization.
The one drawback to the Public Service Labour Relations Board may be that whistle-blowing may be seen purely in employment terms, that it's about job security. And when we read the reports of the public service integrity officer, he highlights the fact that most of the complaints coming to him are from disgruntled employees who feel they've been disciplined unfairly. Whistle-blowing is about more than dealing with employment problems. It's much broader than that. That's the only misgiving I have about leaving it at the Public Service Labour Relations Board.