In a way, we're almost deputizing employees to help root out any wrongdoing in the public sector, the public service. But we seem to be empowering them without giving them the proper protections that they may need to do their jobs. I think everyone's hitting on it. I think the fundamental role of this act should be to protect the discloser, the whistle-blower, and not necessarily the information that they're providing . I think that's even a shortcoming in the title of the act. You can go as far back as the title. It's protecting the disclosure and not the discloser. Conceptually, I think that's wrong.
I think we all agree, and when I say “we” I mean my fellow committee colleagues here, that the whistle-blower needs the utmost protection. Whether it's the act that fails or the processes that have been generated from the act, or whatever reason, that seems to be a shortcoming of the act. I think even all the witnesses here agree that those shortcomings are unacceptable, and we're all looking to how we can get rid of those shortcomings and improve it.
With those first principles in mind....
Sorry, did you have something to say?