Feds’ vague response to committee report will not protect whistleblowers, say critics

Opposition critics pan the ‘brush-off’ of the Government Operations Committee's report on how to better protect whistleblowers, while Liberals say the government agreed with the committee.

Liberal MP Yasmin Ratansi, centre, has defended the government's response to a committee report on protecting public-service whistleblowers, which Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, left, and NDP MP Erin Weir, right, said didn't go far enough.The Hill Times file photos, and photo courtesy of the House of Commons

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BY EMILY HAWS

November 1, 2017

Opposition Members of Parliament and advocates are panning the government’s response last month to the House Government Operations Committee’s report on whistleblower legislation, saying it is too vague and takes no real action to further protect public-servant wh...

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