Premier says people aren't 'forced' to sign NDAs; advocates say coercion a factor
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NDP Leader Claudia Chender, who tabled legislation in the spring to ban NDAs, said the government needs to act now.
"If they're not going to do it, then we need to ask why," she said Friday.
"The government keeps talking about a jurisdictional scan. Jurisdictional scans take about 15 minutes. They've clearly already done one because they've spoken about other jurisdictions in the House."
Chender said limiting the use of NDAs is in the public interest because it could bring to light abuses or allegations that would otherwise remain hidden.
"Lots of the alleged incidents at the heart of the Hockey Canada scandal happened years ago, decades ago, in some cases. The reason we haven't heard about them until now is because of the presence of NDAs," Chender said.
"Perhaps if those hadn't have existed, many, many, many people could have been saved a lot of trauma and tragedy, frankly, because the wrongdoing could have come to light sooner and it could have stopped."
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