Canada
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · Finding of wrongdoing: 16
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Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 December 2025 · The Commissioner found that the Museum's Chief Executive Officer, a Governor in Council appointee, committed serious breaches of the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector and of the Museum's Code of Conduct through a pattern of inappropriate behaviour towards employees over a period of years (paragraph 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 May 2024 · The Commissioner found that Parole Board of Canada management committed gross mismanagement and created a substantial and specific risk to the health and safety of employees in their handling of workplace incidents involving a Board member (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(d) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 March 2024 · The Commissioner found that Correctional Service Canada management committed gross mismanagement in their handling of a serious leak from the pipes of the District Heating System at the Matsqui Complex in British Columbia (paragraph 8(c) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Department of National Defence
Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 September 2023 · The Commissioner found that the Department of National Defence committed wrongdoing: findings of wrongdoing in the Department and the Canadian Armed Forces were not made public promptly, as the Act requires, and whistleblowers were not informed of the outcome. The Commissioner found this a contravention of the law and gross mismanagement (paragraphs 8(a) and 8(c) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 October 2022 · The Commissioner found that an executive of Global Affairs Canada breached a code of conduct through inappropriate comments and mistreatment of employees on an ongoing basis, and that Global Affairs Canada committed gross mismanagement (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 March 2020 · The Commissioner found that Correctional Service Canada committed gross mismanagement by failing to take adequate measures against serious inappropriate behaviour by a group of Correctional Officers, and created a substantial and specific danger to the life, health or safety of an employee (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(d) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 March 2018 · The Commissioner found that a Director of Correctional Service Canada repeatedly abused staff through words and actions, a serious breach of the CSC Code of Discipline and of the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector, and that an Assistant Commissioner's inaction was gross mismanagement (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 June 2017 · The Commissioner found that Fisheries and Oceans Canada withheld the results of a noise assessment and failed to inform Maritimes Region employees of a demonstrated health and safety hazard, which created a substantial and specific danger to their health and safety and was a serious breach of the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector (paragraphs 8(d) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Public Health Agency of Canada
Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 February 2017 · The Commissioner found that an executive of the Public Health Agency of Canada committed a serious breach of the Agency's Values and Ethics Code and gross mismanagement by verbally abusing staff and other public servants and by physical displays of anger (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 February 2016 · The Commissioner found that a Correctional Service Canada facility created a specific and substantial danger to the safety of children by allowing employees to bring children into it, and found gross mismanagement because of the systemic nature of the situation (paragraphs 8(c) and 8(d) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 November 2014 · The Commissioner found that the Ottawa Air Section of the RCMP Air Services Branch made false entries in aircraft journey log books and flew overweight, contravening paragraph 602.07(a) of the Canadian Aviation Regulations (paragraph 8(a) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 May 2014 · The Commissioner found that the Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation seriously breached the Corporation's code of conduct when he hired four people with publicly demonstrated ties to political parties without a process showing how they were selected (paragraph 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 January 2014 · The Commissioner found that a member of the Parole Board of Canada placed himself in a conflict of interest by requesting a new decision in a particular parole file, behaved inappropriately in the workplace over an extended period and disclosed information to people not authorized to receive it (paragraphs 8(a) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Canada School of Public Service
Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 November 2013 · The Commissioner found that a senior official of the Canada School of Public Service failed to protect the identity of persons involved in the disclosure process, as required by paragraph 11(1)(a) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, when an investigation notice was shared unredacted. · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 June 2013 · The Commissioner found that the chief executive of Blue Water Bridge Canada misused public funds and seriously breached a code of conduct by awarding excessive severance packages to two managers in 2008 and 2011, totalling more than $650,000 (paragraphs 8(b) and 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source
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Authority Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada · From 1 March 2013 · The Commissioner found that a Border Services Officer of the Canada Border Services Agency seriously breached a code of conduct by not conducting secondary examinations of individuals who had look-outs issued against them (paragraph 8(e) of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act). · Source