That's my concern. It's my largest concern with this piece of legislation. The way I see it and the way we've read it, there are no protections being placed in the legislation.
For context, for example, Veterans Affairs is where a member applies for a disability benefit. They reach out to the RCMP to receive information such as an injury report that happened in a police car crash, which is shared with Veterans Affairs to assist in the determination of that injury or disability application. Veterans Affairs makes its adjudication and provides a response to the member, and then shares back with the RCMP the name, the regimental number, the diagnosis and the determination. It doesn't share any of the information that is provided by the member to make that determination, any of the application information or the percentage of disability, for example.
Veterans Affairs Canada operates on a table of disabilities. You can have a 25% disability for post-traumatic stress disorder and 20% for hearing loss. Someone at the RCMP could infer that you are 45% disabled, because you have a 25% and a 20%, which is not true at all. The fear is that, by sharing that information, we end up in a world where the employer, the RCMP, is saying that they are no longer fit to be a police officer; therefore, off they go versus getting treatment, getting care and having access to that care, so the worry is the oversharing of information without protections in place.
