Whistleblower Group Criticizes Federal Review of Wrongdoing Disclosure Regime

President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA—An advocacy group for those who reveal wrongdoing says it cannot support a new task force looking at the federal whistleblowing regime because it lacks someone with “lived experience” as an actual whistleblower.

In a letter to Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, Whistleblowing Canada Research Society president Pamela Forward calls the absence a “shocking omission.”