I think that if you are a whistle-blower and you blow the whistle to the media, you are facing hardship. It brings you back to the situation before this law was created where people had to invoke whistle-blowing as part of their defence. They had been fired. They had been disciplined, and they said, “Wait a minute. I breached my duty of loyalty or of confidentiality to my employer because this was so important that I needed to speak publicly about it.”
There is no doubt that the PSDPA restricts that kind of whistle-blowing. The factors at 16 are strict. I do not have an immediate definition for “imminent” other than what we all understand imminent to mean. What is a serious offence? I think all offences are serious, but in the act, Parliament nonetheless chose to certainly curtail the protection that comes from whistle-blowing to the media. There's no doubt about that.