Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for your testimony again today.
I would like to focus on a couple of issues I've been asking previous witnesses about in previous sessions.
The first relates to the scope of what a public interest disclosure should be and what the act should cover. The Canadian act covers serious violations of the employment code of ethics for public sector employees. I notice that employment-related matters and employment contract-related matters are explicitly excluded from the Irish act and also from some of the other acts we've looked at.
I'm wondering what your thoughts are—very briefly because the time is short—on whether or not we should exclude employment contract-related matters from the whistle-blower protection law as a means to focus our attention on the more important and truly public interest disclosures that aren't employment matter-related.
Maybe we can start with Tom.