(2) Neither the Fairness Commissioner nor anyone employed in the Office of the Fairness Commissioner is a competent or compellable witness in a civil proceeding outside this Code in connection with anything done under this Code. (ontario.ca)
In other words, until the Crown establishes that there is a «case to meet», an accused is not compellable in a general sense (as opposed to the narrow, testimonial sense) and need not answer the allegations against him or her. (claytonrice.com)
For example, section 53 of BC's Health Professions Act not only imposes a duty on persons to «preserve confidentiality», but also provides that records are «not compellable in an court or in proceedings of a judicial nature» except for proceedings under the Act, or where disclosure is authorized by a college board as «being in the public interest» (s. 53 (1) and (3)-RRB-. (ngariss.com)