No, I don't think one is linked to the other. I think it's clear that we strongly believe in support and that the responsibility for the inspection should remain with Transport Canada and within the inspectorate community.
When you're talking about whistleblowing and looking to get things fixed, the question is, would inspectors who work for Transport Canada or the Transportation Safety Board, if they were housed within Transport Canada, be going to their own management to complain about their own management? There are all kinds of questions on how there would be any kind of protection there.
One of the examples that could be used is the airport sector that has been delegated SMS responsibilities. There are a few very small airports that remain with Transport Canada and you have inspectors going in to inspect their own colleagues. Where do they do the whistleblowing or where do they report if they have a problem with the airport manager who is also a Transport Canada employee? In the case of the few airports that are left, are they going to try to whistleblow or make a statement against somebody who is actually superior to them within their own organization? That's difficult.
Having a totally independent office makes a very strong statement to everybody, to the public and private sector, to those who want to use whistleblowing, and to the federal government employees who use whistleblowing. Having it as a completely separate entity altogether shows that we believe and will protect those who come forward to identify wrongdoing.