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Nearly 20,000 sensitive documents mishandled under Trudeau government

Only one government employee has had their security clearance revoked, despite thousands of instances of improperly secured documents in the last three years.

Employment and Social Development Canada, whose political masters include Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured right arriving at a Feb. 19 cabinet meeting in West Block, reported the most instances of unsecured protected and classified documents going back to 2016, according to new numbers from the government. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

April 24, 2019

Only one government employee has had their security clearance revoked since 2016, though there have been nearly 20,000 instances of sensitive documents being mishandled in the last three years. According to numbers tabled in the House of Commons on April 9, 19,787 classified or protected documents ...

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