Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, my question remains, who are we to decide for the whistleblower what's best for them? If they are really fed up with being reprimanded, reprisals and seeing things that make no sense, to the point where they decide to go to the tribunal, who are we to tell him that they don't have the right to do so? That's my first thought.
Second, I hear my colleagues saying that so many whistleblowers will turn to the tribunal that it will end up with a backlog. Are things really that bad in our public service? Is the situation that serious? If that's the case, it's high time to implement tougher legislation.
What I interpret when I hear people raise the concern that the tribunal will be swamped with requests is that people have reasons to complain but they prefer to keep quiet right now. A stronger law would protect them enough so that they could finally complain, and the machinery of government could work better.
We can certainly agree to disagree on that, so we can go to a vote.