A bad month for honest public servants

Remarkably, in her first year of operation, with a staff of 21 people and a budget of $6.5-million, the public sector integrity commissioner has found not a single instance of wrongdoing.

This has been a bad month for federal public servants who want to do their jobs honestly, without fear of reprisals for telling the truth or respecting the law. Two recent events suggest that such employees are more than ever in grave danger.

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