As the minister indicated, I think the intention of the government is to create enforceable rights. The choice that the government made was that those rights would be enforceable through a complaint mechanism. The bill provides what that complaint mechanism must include: an ability to receive the complaint, review the complaint, make recommendations, and report back to the victim.
This bill differs quite significantly from provincial and territorial legislation that you might be familiar with in that the rights here are very clearly stated as rights. Provincial and territorial legislation includes language such as “victim should” and “government should”. One of the key differences here, which indicates the character of the rights that the government is wanting to create, is that rights are expressed that way, that victims “have a right to...”.
With regard to a question one of your colleagues asked about standing, the government's intention in creating the complaint mechanism was that, one, it reflected what had been heard in consultations, and two, it empowers employees to make changes in their thinking and in their approach to their duties that will reflect the fact that the concerns of victims and the needs of victims should be part of the exercise of those duties.