Integrity commissioner report spotlights gross mismanagement at Corrections Canada
Harriet Solloway’s first report as integrity commissioner is encouraging in its strong findings, which should serve as a warning to other managers in the public service.
Advocates, MPs point fingers over delays to long-awaited update to Canada’s whistleblower laws
‘The Liberals and their rich friends don’t care about whistleblowers, and the Conservatives will always prop up the bosses and not the workers, so this suits them quite fine,’ says NDP MP Gord Johns.
Team Trudeau seeking to kill whistleblower bill?
Regardless of ego and ambition, why can’t our leaders understand the harm being done to others by the current, deeply flawed so-called whistleblower protection law?
‘Long overdue’ update to whistleblower law should include veterans, says retired Air Force officer and accountability advocate
Bill C-290 is a Bloc private member’s bill to amend the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, the basis for the disclosure of misconduct in the public sector and protects whistleblowers. And it’s attracting attention.
Why Treasury Board cannot be trusted to fix its own whistleblowing mess
The Treasury Board’s track record has repeatedly proven it lacks not only the expertise to produce an effective whistleblowing law, but also any intention of doing so.
Opposition parties should force feds to strengthen whistleblower protections with private member’s bill, says watchdog
Canada’s political parties have yet to show they are “serious” about reforming the country’s whistleblower laws to strengthen and expand protections, and are likely to miss their best shot at forcing the government to act, says a watchdog. The House Government Operations Committee, also known as OGGO, unanimously moved to reissue a 2017 report late […]
In Canada, whistleblowers pay steep price
Victims of sexual misconduct in the workplace and whistleblowers have a lot in common. Both are typically terrified about coming forward and reporting wrongdoing. Both face a high risk that they will be blacklisted and have their reputations smeared. Too many are left paying a steep price with their health and careers that can carry […]
Public servants ‘pissed’ over PCO clerk’s call to look at loosening rules to fire them
If Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick wants to make it easier to fire civil servants, he should start with the Phoenix pay system executives, say public sector unions ruffled by comments from the nation’s top bureaucrat that MPs should consider loosening the legislative rules around booting employees. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) national president […]
The ‘incomprehensible’ Phoenix meltdown: entirely predictable and entirely preventable
Calling the project an “incomprehensible failure,” Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s recent report on Phoenix describes not just a litany of outrageously bad and irresponsible decisions, but a stunning level of dishonesty among the senior executives responsible. For years—right from the start of the project—they knowingly hid important information and misled their superiors, concealing serious problems […]
Kudos to House committee for sound recommendations on whistleblower protection
OTTAWA—The parliamentary committee studying Canada’s federal whistle blowing law for the past five months has unanimously called on the Trudeau government to make sweeping changes to the act. The Government Operations Committee (OGGO) was carrying out a long-overdue review of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) created by the Harper government in 2006 and […]
