This amendment is similar to amendment NDP-17, which sought to ensure that work place and policy committees are once again able to participate in investigations. The amendment before us seeks to ensure that occupational health and safety representatives are able to participate again. Those representatives should not be excluded from the investigation process either.
The amendment seeks to enable those representatives, just like the workplace committees, to continue to participate in investigations on incidents of harassment and violence in the workplace. They already successfully fulfill this role today. Their expertise cannot be ignored in the name of confidentiality. That makes no sense to us.