GAC’s dissent channel offers partial anonymity, forbids undermining leadership: memo

Between June 2024 and March 2025, IRCC only accepted three of 24 dissenting messages in a similar channel, according to a GAC memo.

Global Affairs Canada, overseen by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, approved the establishment of a dissent channel this past March.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 13, 2025

The foreign ministry’s new dissent channel offers diplomats the option for partial anonymity when criticizing the trajectory of Canadian external relations, but bars users from attempting to “undermine leadership,” according to a departmental memo.

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