Canadians want whistle-blowers protected

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An overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the federal Liberals should bring in new laws to protect whistle-blowers in the civil service, a new survey has found.

The survey, conducted by the Environics Research Group for the Public Service Alliance of Canada and released Tuesday, showed 89 per cent of Canadians want the government to draft legislation that would safeguard public sector workers who expose government corruption from reprisals.

“The survey shows that Canadians are looking for transparency and fairness,” Nycole Turmel the National President of the PSAC, a union representing 150,000 civil servants across the country, told globeandmail.com on Tuesday.

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[Speck Tater]

1. Whistle blowers should not only be protected,

they should be richly rewarded. A whistle blowers fund, like a lottery pool, should be set up to award whistle blowers at least a million dollars or more for exposing significant misdeads in business or government. It should be enough that potential whistle blowers would not have to worry about being fired for blowing the whistle. The whistle-blower bonus award could leave them set for life, having performed a valuable service to mankind.

No government or corporation is going to take a chance at dirty tricks if they know the janitor is just itching for the chance to dig up some dirt and retire wealthy.