Thank you for the question.
As you know, every jurisdiction in Canada has its own system. The legislation of each one is fairly different, but they tend to have some points in common. According to our analysis, all the measures proposed in clause 17 of the bill exist elsewhere in Canada. As I said earlier, from this perspective, it isn't particularly innovative. Basically, we really have examples to follow.
Not all measures are available in every jurisdiction. However, in the case of administrative monetary penalties, there are similar measures in occupational health and safety or labour standards legislation, or both, in Alberta, as well as in British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Yukon. Several jurisdictions have adopted such systems.
As for the power to designate offending employers, the majority of jurisdictions have it. With respect to protection against retaliation, the federal government was one of the few not to have adopted a scheme in this area. So we're now going to catch up with several other jurisdictions.
I won't give you all the examples, but let's say that our analysis gave us a bit of an idea of what was being done elsewhere. Care should be taken to include protections that are at least comparable to those available to employees subject to provincial legislation.