Whistleblower Protection

In its submission, CFE details the important improvements Bill C-290 will make to the current, deeply flawed, federal whistleblower protection legislation. It recommends that C-290 be passed and given royal assent as soon as possible. At the same time, CFE makes clear that, while vastly improved by C-290 changes, some serious shortcomings of the PSDPA remain and that further changes are required to bring it up to international best practice standards.

By Ian Bron

By DAVID HUTTON - The 2023 session of Parliament resumes with Canada’s antiquated, dysfunctional, and discredited whistleblower protection law still in place—and no credible government plan to fix it anytime soon.

CFE Senior Fellow David Hutton testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) on February 13 in connection with its study of Federal Government contracts awarded to McKinsey and Company. The trigger for the study was the massive, exponential increase over the past few years in the dollar amount of government contracts awarded to McKinsey, the largest management consulting firm in the world in terms both of number of employees and revenue.

In its fourth report analyzing adequacy of whistleblower protection laws in Canada, the Centre for Free Expression finds Saskatchewan’s Public Interest Disclosure Act fails on all criteria.