May 9, 2017
Mr. Sucha: Mr. Speaker, you know, it was May the 4th, and we all referenced many fun popular culture references to whistle-blowing, but it is important to acknowledge that sometimes whistle-blowing really impacts a life-or-death situation. I’d be remiss because we just recently had comic expo in Calgary, and Edmonton-born Nathan Fillion was there. In Firefly they had the Reavers. If anyone has read into the Reavers, they were these beasts that no one really understood where they came from. There were these weird creatures, and there was a lot of hearsay and rumour in relation to it. As we dug deeper, it turned out that Nathan Fillion’s character in the show Firefly discovered that it was actually the Alliance that was doing experiments, and they actually work off a parliamentary system similar to our own here. It made me wonder that if they had whistle-blower protection under the Alliance on Firefly if Reavers would have actually existed, you know, if whistle-blowing could be called on members of the parliament in Firefly.
