I'll give you a specific example. I'm sure you're familiar with the Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator, Kitchener-Waterloo Record series on air safety issues. One of the things they pointed out only a few days ago in an interview with four mechanics from Air Canada Jazz...according to those mechanics, there are repeated safety violations on a regular basis with Air Canada Jazz. They tried to use the internal company mechanism and got nowhere. Now those mechanics are suspended, as a result of actively reporting what was in the public interest.
So I come back to the issue of information. Here we have a system that allegedly has broken down internally. How does Transport Canada then intervene to protect the public safety, if we don't have access to that information to understand what is going on? I should note, the series took four years to produce--the Star, the Spectator, and the Record--going through freedom of information requests; that's four years to produce something that is in the public's interest to know almost immediately.