I absolutely agree with that. If you look at the grievance process, the more restrictions, the more avenues or choices of forums that you provide to individuals, the worse the process is. You wind up with a lot of grievances, and there could be a question as to whether it should go one route or another, whether it's a discrimination or a selection grievance or a grievance under the collective agreement. What you get is what you call “forum shopping”, where people will decide to go to one forum rather than another. Then you wind up with jurisdictional issues where you have lawyers on both sides arguing that, no, it shouldn't be in front of this tribunal but it should be in front of another tribunal. Creating a seamless adjudication process, whatever that is, is much more consistent with the private sector, but it's also far better management. I believe ultimately it's better for both parties.
On November 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.