Most large departments have yet to publish 2025-26 wrongdoing reports as critic questions ‘piecemeal’ practice

Some departments reporting granular data on specific instances of misbehaviour, and others broadly summarize founded and unfounded cases, an approach that one ethics researcher says suggests 'the ship has sailed' on the exercise.
John Hannaford
Wrongdoing reports were introduced by then-Privy Council clerk John Hannaford, pictured, in late 2024, just over a year into his tenure. Unless current Clerk Michael Sabia makes a point of emphasizing the importance of the reports, they’ll continue to be piecemeal, according to one public sector ethics expert.

Two years after the first directive for departments to begin reporting on misconduct and wrongdoing in the federal public service, departments and agencies are slow to publish their annual reports and are taking an uneven approach to detailing bad behaviour among public serv...

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