Mr. Volpe is partly right. However, I must speak to my research assistant. Until safety management systems are in effect everywhere, we want those who report certain things to Transport Canada to be protected. You said so yourself: sometimes it takes a number of years before the safety management system is in effect. In the meantime, we want to ensure that these people are protected.
You're nevertheless offering a protection provision here. That means that it is possible that not everyone is immediately covered. We want an employee to be protected from the moment he decides to file a complaint. Whether he transmits it directly to Transport Canada or through the safety management system, we want to ensure that that person is protected. Here I would be prepared to come around if we could add a subsection (5), which would simply consist in including those not covered by safety management systems. It's simply that.