‘Some investigations may never see the light of day’: public service watchdog seeks budget bump to dig through backlog

Last year, the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner received 348 disclosures of wrongdoing, and had a backlog of 102 cases reported the year prior.

Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway says her office is five times over its capacity for investigating wrongdoing in the federal public service.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

August 4, 2025

Canada’s public service integrity commissioner is facing a massive backlog in cases and insufficient funding, which she says jeopardizes her office's ability to expose wrongdoing in the public service and to protect whistleblowers.

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