Mr. Chair, first of all I would agree that the heart of any whistle-blowing regime is the protection against reprisal. One of the very difficult issues—and I alluded to it in my opening remarks—is that the subtler forms of reprisal are the most difficult to identify. When someone blows the whistle and then immediately something bad happens to them, the precision is almost mathematical.
I mentioned as well that we're looking at producing a suite of policies to guide us in being consistent and clear. The first policy we are working on and have almost completed is to provide some guidelines to the commissioner with respect to interpreting that 60 days. The law currently allows that 60-day period to be extended, taking into account the circumstances of the case, and as I speak we are working on internal guidelines to ensure that people are treated equitably.