All right. I won't read the whole thing, but let me tell you what the effect would be. Without this amendment, the effect would be that some very intelligent, experienced, and committed civil servants will simply not bring anything forward to the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner unless they want to see their names all over the newspapers three months or six months hence.
Effectively you'd be saying to them: “By the way, you will have no certainty of privacy. Parliament can and may discard this assurance. If you choose to disclose information that you deem important for good governance in Canada, you take your chances. You may be on your own”. That's the message we would be sending to civil servants who might otherwise report things.
As I say, particularly if I were in the opposition, I would want civil servants to report potential wrongdoing. This would kill it. It would gut the act.
Thank you.