I can answer this question, Mr. Chair. In fact, I was a park warden in Jasper National Park, so it was my workspace.
I can clarify how the amendment would work. There are two parts. One is, as you read, the change to the definition of workspace. Part two is the regulation-making power under the Non-smokers’ Health Act to designate spaces in outdoor areas that would be included in the definition of workspace. That's how it would work.
It applies to the consumption, the smoking or vaping of cannabis or tobacco, not its possession. Together the two motions allow the Minister of Labour to make a recommendation to the Governor in Council to make a regulation designating certain outdoor spaces as being a workspace. In those areas, the smoking or vaping of tobacco or cannabis would not be permitted.
It's not a blanket prohibition that in any federal outdoor space suddenly now you can't consume tobacco or cannabis. It simply provides the ability, as the committee heard during witness testimony, for the minister to designate these spaces, such as an area outside of these buildings, a parking lot of Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park, and so on.