I will answer that question with an anecdote that I told my son this weekend. He asked me what lie I was speaking about this weekend, and I said, “Imagine that you went to a group of people, and you said to them: 'We're worried about some of you committing a crime, so we would like you to write the law. We would like you to assign the chief of police. We would like you to populate the police that will enforce that law. We will give you control over every aspect of evidence. We will give you unlimited legal resources, and we will give you unlimited financial resources to defend yourself, and, should anyone accuse you of committing a crime, then you have the right to persecute that person.'”
My son said to me, “That doesn't sound like a very smart law, and it sounds like the criminals would like it.” I think that's what we have in front of us, a law that basically does not help the whistle-blower, even though in name it's supposed to. We would never build, for instance, a public building for all Canadians that didn't have wheelchair-accessible ramps or wheelchair-accessible bathrooms—specifically supposed to be designed to help people who are truly vulnerable, disabled, fighting the government—and put in a whole bunch of ladders and a whole bunch of walls that they have to climb over when they're not capable of doing so. Bill C-290 starts to take away some of those obstacles.