Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Cutler, I've had the pleasure of having you as our witness many times in many different efforts to try to get whistle-blowing legislation through. Thank you for your continued advocacy and for being a champion on this issue.
I do have notes here, and I remember when you were in front of the government operations committee talking about Bill C-11 last time, clause 55 was one of your concerns. It amended the Access to Information Act to essentially enable government to cloak in secrecy for 20 years any information regarding the identity of the whistle-blowers--which I think is the objective, and the anonymity of the whistle-blower is a good thing--as well as the identities of the accused persons; the details of the allegation of wrongdoing; the details of any action taken to investigate the allegations; the details of any remedial actions taken to prevent future wrongdoings; the details of disciplinary action taken against wrongdoers; the details of disciplinary action taken against whistle-blowers; or the details of retaliation, the actions or retribution against the whistle-blowers.
I'd ask you to speak to this. Do you believe that as a by-product of trying to protect the anonymity of whistle-blowers it's right to close the door on this whole body of information associated with the incident that's being reported, or the wrongdoing?