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National Defence committee Fear of reprisal is definitely an issue. Perhaps, as alluded to before, when the internal disclosure regime does not work very well, it affects the entire disclosure regime. We have jurisdiction over the Department of National Defence but not the Canadian Armed Forces. However,
February 26th, 2024Committee meeting
Brian Radford
National Defence committee No. A member of the CAF can provide us information, as any member of the public can, with respect to wrongdoing.
February 26th, 2024Committee meeting
Brian Radford
National Defence committee They're DND employees with respect to wrongdoing and DND employees with respect to making a reprisal complaint. People alleged to have taken a reprisal can, however, include a CAF member.
February 26th, 2024Committee meeting
Brian Radford
National Defence committee Thank you. Madam Solloway is correct that we have not seen this issue raised with us to any significant degree. With respect to our own commissioner's office, we're a very small entity of 36 people with a single mandate to implement the PSDPA, the Public Servants Disclosure Pr
February 26th, 2024Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Yes, proportionally speaking, the higher number of requests for access to legal advice come from the reprisal files. Although we have fewer reprisal files, we can understand that the people are more directly involved. They are making complaints. They're named as having taken repr
April 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Under our current process, the identity of the discloser is known to PSIC and to the investigator.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Thank you for those questions, Mr. Chair. We will meet that commitment.
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee No, we are not. The Deloitte report was a special report that was made in 2010. After the resignation of the first commissioner, Madame Ouimet, interim commissioner Mario Dion ordered a review of all of our closed files. As a result of that, Deloitte identified about 70 files tha
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Finally—
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee With respect to reprisal complaints, that's a very different world again. I think the courts have recognized that the commissioner enjoys quite a lot of discretion, and deference has been given to the commissioner by the courts in matters of disclosures of wrongdoing. Not so much
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee We will distinguish between disclosures of wrongdoing and reprisal complaints. Mr. Lampron, can you inform us of the statistics and the grounds for refusals of both reprisals and disclosures, please?
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee To be clear, we do not provide training directly. Our commissioner's office is committed to meet as often as possible with the greatest possible number of public servants and managers. In the first document we distributed to the committee, we list the number of contacts that we m
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Yes. One philosophy of whistle-blowing is that you can create a right of whistle-blowing and if you meet the criteria that Parliament chooses for whistle-blowing, and Parliament is free to adjust those criteria, you can then invoke a recourse, whether it is a recourse under the P
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee Yes. First of all, discussions take place between the person making the disclosure, the whistleblower, and our office, either with Mr. Lampron or with our analysts. Our recommendation to our analysts and investigators is to take care not to promise absolute confidentiality. Abso
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford
Government Operations committee The subject of the request may not be the reason for a disclosure investigation; however, the individual remains protected against reprisals at all times. So there may be situations where people are protected against reprisals because they have gone to the Office of the Privacy C
April 6th, 2017Committee meeting
Brian Radford