No. I'll give the straight answer on that, and Tom Devine is going to speak to you about this. Any right that is given under a whistle-blowing act should be additive. In other words, it should just be one option for the whistle-blower. Why would you support an act that restricts rights that are inherent? Our tort rights should be preserved. Our rights under the charter need to preserved.
I sued the government. Do you know what the government did after I was successful at the court of appeal in a unanimous decision? They didn't appeal it to the Supreme Court of Canada. Instead, very quietly, in 2003, buried in a huge omnibus bill, they put in a section that said that a public servant has no right to sue anymore. That was section 236 of the Public Service Modernization Act.
What I am telling you is that, in any enlightened democracy, the rights should be additive, but they should not be exclusive. The man who's had the longest history in drafting laws and in acting for whistle-blowers is Tom Devine, and he will speak clearly to this.