Thank you, Chair.
To Madame Bernier, I'm concerned with not just now; I'm concerned also with the future. I'm concerned about the perception, about a potential cooling that might be in force among people who thought they had an absolute level of protection.
We've heard--from Mr. Walsh, and through previous letters, and from you--that there might be some circumstances, under the purview of a committee decision, to override that disclosure, to basically say that obviously the common good dictates, which means the absolute level of protection is not there.
Is there a fear that this perception might keep a number of people away in the future from being a whistle-blower, from coming forward, knowing that any disclosure that they do sign is not absolute? There is no complete protection. People beyond the signature of that document can arbitrarily, for valid reasons, change that.