By sharing information federally and working in partnership with weigh stations across the country, we can actually crack down faster on suspected bad actors. About 80% of employers who we suspected were misclassifying agreed to properly treat drivers as employees and voluntarily comply with the code.
However, there are still actors out there who continue to use this practice in fraudulent ways. That's why this relationship with information sharing between the labour department and CRA—but also the work we're doing in partnership with the provinces and territories—is so critically important.
We also spend quite a bit of time, when we're partnering with the provinces, informing individual drivers of their rights. It's an important component of the work to let drivers know their rights. It helps them to understand any kind of improper practices that may be happening, up to and including misclassification.
I believe today's announcement about how we're going to strengthen that information sharing will lead to even better outcomes in terms of being able to track, find and address these misclassification incidents.