Madam Chair, this is one of the issues that I struggled with in my deliberations on the bill, perhaps more than any other. I take privacy rights, my own and everyone else's, very seriously, and I have some concerns, particularly with the testimony from one of the railways that talked about potentially using this information.
When I was thinking of how we actually do this the right way, I considered that on the flip side of the coin, people's lives are literally at stake, and I think there's a potential to save lives by having LVVRs used properly. My recollection of the testimony—and I believe it was with department officials—is that the regulation was intended to be used in limited circumstances for a systemic audit to identify systemic safety concerns. Unless there was a specific accident that was not being investigated, it was limited to that scope. Provided we received honest testimony during our hearing, it is not possible for a company to use this for punitive purposes, except maybe in the extraordinary case where a systemic audit is being undertaken and an auditor happens to catch egregious behaviour, which is highly unlikely.
Can you confirm for us that the regulations will, beyond a shadow of a doubt, be limited to that systemic audit for safety concerns that are not about the individual, but are about what's happening in the system as whole, so we can implement policies to save lives?