Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to second everything that Ms. Nash has said about how egregious these changes to the Canada Labour Code are. She started out as a health and safety worker. I once practised union side labour law. Seeing these changes to the Canada Labour Code without background, without consulting any of the key stakeholders is really quite shocking. I don't know in whose interests these changes are, but we certainly oppose them.
This amendment goes to the fact that there's replacement of health and safety worker judgment with levels of political discretion of the minister without statutory appeal. What I'm proposing in amendment PV-6 is that the decisions that are made under subsection 129(1), where the minister can decide not to investigate, would now be open to a statutory appeal for the employer, the employee, or the trade union. It expands the language that you now find in section 146 to include not only the direction the minister may make but a decision the minister makes under new section 129 not to investigate.
It certainly is capricious to give political discretion and deny an appeal.