Nick Whalen at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 21st, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 21st, 2017 / 9:40 a.m.

Liberal

Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to all of you for coming.

I want to maybe take the question in a different line. I see how the confidentiality provisions that pervade the act help the wrongdoer and I see how they help the departments, but I don't see how they help society as a whole and I'm a bit equivocal on whether or not they help the wrongdoer.

Mr. Chamberlain, could you speak a little bit to the benefits that actually accrue to a whistle-blower who has to have all these confidentiality regimes around the disclosure of wrongdoing when perhaps it doesn't serve their benefit?

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