Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for joining us today. I will echo the statements of everybody else by thanking Mr. Sabourin for showing the courage to ultimately revisit his painful lived experience.
Thanks also to our colleague, Monsieur Garon, for bringing this forward again.
I think Mr. Sabourin talked a little bit about this. The bill includes making “failure to provide support” to a public servant who is making a reprisal part of the act.
Would this change violate the confidentiality of the process, as additional people would need to know the identity of the discloser? I think you mentioned that it ultimately goes to people who know the people who know the people.
My question is for Madam Forward.
Bill C-290 also includes a new category of wrongdoing, which is “abuse of authority”, but it has no definition within the bill. How can the committee solve the problem of how to define that?