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@Risk: Blowing the Whistle with Dr. John O’Connor and David Yazbeck

15 Mar 2021

And when they landed they went to the nursing station in Port Chip, went into the kitchen, one of the physicians grabbed a mug, filled it with water from the sink in the tap, took a swig of it and turned to the nursing station staff and at that point it was a Globe and Mail reporter. [...] And the only study that's been done of any description, the only decent look at the community was organized by the two bands the Cree band the Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in collaboration with the University of Manitoba in 2014. [...] And it’s unfortunate that we get to that point because it is a wonderful tool, right, because it immediately shifts the debate and shifts the problem onto the whistleblower and the subject matter of the whistleblowing is removed from the discussion. [...] And the committee came up with, that is the operations committee of the of the House Of Commons, came up with a pretty strong set of recommendations about amending the act to make it better. [...] And in the case of the Public Servant Disclosure Protection Act the preamble is pretty significant, and it essentially situates the act in the context of Canadian constitutional democracy.
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