Team Trudeau seeking to kill whistleblower bill?

Regardless of ego and ambition, why can’t our leaders understand the harm being done to others by the current, deeply flawed so-called whistleblower protection law?

Greg Fergus, the prime minister’s parliamentary secretary, while repeatedly avowing his good intentions, is delaying and obstructing the clause-by-clause process at the House Government Operations Committee at every turn, writes David Hutton.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID HUTTON

June 19, 2023

When Bloc Québécois MP Jean-Denis Garon’s private member’s bill C-290 was tabled in June 2022, with the aim of partly reforming our dysfunctional and discredited federal whistleblower protection law, some feared that the government would kill it by filibustering—wast...

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