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Whistleblowing in Canada: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?

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This paper examines whistleblowing in Canada. It traces the growing body of whistleblower legislation in Canada over the past several years, assesses some of the shortcomings of these efforts, and compares them to American approaches.

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Saunders, Kelly. "Whistleblowing in Canada: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p268304_index.html>

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Whistleblowing in Canada: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back? Paper presented to the Mid­West Political Science Association Conference April 2008 Draft Working Paper – Please do no cite without permission from the authors Kelly L. Saunders  PhD Department of Political Science Brandon University Brandon  MB Canada saundersk@brandonu.ca Joanne Thibault  MPA Senior Strategy and Planning Consultant Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation Winnipeg  MB Canada Joanne.Thibault@gov.mb.ca I. Introduction The issue of whistleblowing within Canada’s federal civil service has had a long and rocky  history in the country. As one critic described it  the Canadian experience in the quest for effective  whistleblower protection for public employees has been a story of “broken promises  foot­dragging  and false starts”1; a case of one step forward and two steps back. Unlike other countries such as  the United States  Australia and New Zealand that were quicker off the mark2  Canada only passed  a comprehensive disclosure act for its federal public service in 2005; a full twelve years after it was  first promised by Jean Chrétien’s Liberals in the 1993 election campaign. This does not mean that  there was scant interest in the issue; to the contrary  prior to the passage of the Public Service  Disclosure   Protection   Act   (PSDPA)   in   2005   whistleblowing   had   been   the   subject   of   not   only  election promises  but also a whirlwind of reports  commissions  and policy changes. And although  the   PSDPA   was   further   amended   in   2007   as  
 In fact the number of disclosures (approximately 400 a year) that are brought to the OSC are extremely low  given the size of the  federal civil service in the United States.  Editorial  “Protection for Endangered Whistle­Blowers”. The New York Times  December 27  2007. Available online at  45 www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/opinion/27thu3.html.   46 Terry Dworkin and Janet Near  “A Better Statutory Approach to Whistle­Blowing. Business Ethics Quarterly  January 1997  Vol. 7 Issue  1.  47  Thomas  2005  p. 178. 48 Tom Devine  “International Best Practices”  Op.Cit..


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