I don't feel the same about employees of private companies or people in private business abroad as I do with respect to crown servants, because I think there is an inherent difference. We send crown servants to serve Canada or the provinces; we should not let their rights or the rights of their children be diminished, because we send them and they serve us.
I think there is a slight distinction. I'm not persuaded that there is even consensus on whether we should be extending the same rights to private people who are in private business, whether it's multinational corporations or Canadian private employers. I've left the scope of my bill narrow because I felt that there would be consensus and it might pass. I think the argument you raise is slightly more contentious.