Madam Chair, I imagine people will recall that the National Energy Board expert panel also recommended that the newly created Canadian energy regulator should “publish regular reports on incidents and compliance actions” so that any interested party will know what happened, why, and what was done in response. That's taken from page 82 of the expert panel report.
What I've done here is very straightforward, and I do think this is the kind of reasonable thing that Ed wants me to propose so that he can support it.
This is for you, Ed.
Proposed subsection 32(2), which appears under “Inquiry”, sets out what the commission may inquire into in terms of accidents, what we might do to prevent accidents, and decisions made.
At the moment, there's no requirement in the act to report on any of that, so it's a very straightforward and common-sense approach to say that the commissioner must make public the determinations that are made under proposed paragraphs 32(2)(a), (b), and (c). Once the commission has done this work, publish it. Make a report to which the public has access, and be more transparent about the work of the commission.