The idea behind the amendment is to ensure that the reports are made public.
Don't forget that one of the witnesses who appeared before the committee was Colonel Steve Charpentier, from the Department of National Defence. He told us how important it was for the department to ensure that the reports were made public.
The whole point was to ensure that information was shared and that certain agencies could see the reports. It used to be the Transportation Safety Board of Canada that did the reporting when a civilian-related accident occurred, and those reports were made public, as everyone knows.
Under clause 19 of the bill, the reports would be confidential and therefore would not be released to the public. The purpose of amendment NDP-1 is to ensure that the reports are made public. That follows through on what Colonel Charpentier told the committee about the Department of National Defence itself making the reports public. We wanted to make sure that was clearly stated in the bill.