Let me leave this thought with you. There are substantive rights and there are procedural rights in the law, and you could have, assuming this is something you are thinking about and brainstorming... Again, I am in no way trying to sort of predetermine the outcome of this committee's deliberations on this subject. If you were talking about a substantive right like no discrimination or harassment in the workplace, and then leave it to another form or body to scope out procedurally how you uphold that right... I put that out there.
The second area that I want to talk to you about is just safety and uniforms. This is something that did come up in your submission, and you actually refer to a case that is from the Ontario Court of Appeal, which is at page 2, footnote 2, and the name of the case is Re Metropolitan Toronto Board of Commissioners of Police and Metro Toronto Police Association. That's very helpful for all of us.
I'm going to go back and try to read that case a little bit, but I do believe that since that case there have been amendments to the Police Services Act that would make the very subject matter that was approved by the Ontario Court of Appeal at that time not bargainable. What I'm referring to, again very generally, is operational requirements. When you go to the board and say, “We want to put this in the hopper to be negotiated”, when you start to move into a zone that really falls within operational requirements decisions, the general rule is that is a no-fly zone, putting it colloquially.