I would argue that, first of all, nobody's trying to hide anything. That's not what it's about. It's about protecting confidentiality and making sure there's free and open reporting.
If for some reason a department of government, whether it's occupational health and safety folks or others, feels it need to see an air safety report that was written by a pilot about an incident, that the appropriate person have the appropriate expertise to be allowed to see that for a specific purpose.... For example, if a flight attendant were injured in flight, or if on the ground somebody were injured because I forgot to set the parking brake, and then I wrote the safety report being completely honest about why I think I failed to set the parking brake, then the occupational health and safety folks or a lawyer wants to see my report because he wants to sue me because a guy was injured, that's not the reason we have safety reports. So we need protections and we need the appropriate people with knowledge and understanding of what the reports are about to be the only ones permitted to see those things, and in appropriate circumstances. Otherwise we'll stop reporting.