Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This is a recommendation that comes from Breaking Barriers Together. It's for further clarity that the use of non-disclosure agreements is prohibited in this act by the commission, the RCMP and CBSA when dealing with complaints of misconduct, both internally and externally.
It would create a new clause 35.1, which is:
Complaints made under this Act shall not be subject to a non-disclosure agreement.
Mr. Chair, very briefly, some of the members around the table have been part of the discussions at Canadian Heritage. We saw how the absence of safety in sports was covered up over many years by the use of non-disclosure agreements in a rampant and inappropriate way.
The recommendation from Breaking Barriers makes sense. It is that non-disclosure agreements shouldn't serve to hide an activity that is happening. For complaints of misconduct, there should not be the ability to obscure that and not be transparent through the use of NDAs.