To start with, I want to reiterate that the health and safety of workers is a priority for the government, and the right of employees to refuse dangerous work is paramount and remains in the legislation. There is no intent to restrict the right to refuse dangerous work.
The rationale of the proposed amendments to the Canada Labour Code is responding to feedback regarding the legislation, aligning the definition of danger to the working interpretation of danger in case law, and ensuring that workplace parties are more involved in the work refusal process, given that over the last 10 years, 80% of refusals to work were determined to be situations of no danger. We did rely on particular information, such as our administrative data and metrics. We have a quality assurance process in place, and we get feedback from our officers, as well as feedback from time to time from our stakeholders, and we did look at the amount of proactive work that our officers undertake, understanding that the time they spend focusing on working with high-risk industrial sectors will result in fewer accidents and injuries.