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Jaded, cynical, disillusioned: report says federal whistleblowers fear reprisal

OTTAWA – Federal workers are increasingly cynical, skeptical and disillusioned about the idea of reporting wrongdoing in the public service, says a recent survey.

That pessimism is more “palpable and widespread” now than it was before the pandemic, and bureaucrats have become more likely to fear reprisals for whistleblowing.

Research firm Phoenix Strategic Perspectives Inc. delivered the report in March to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, which investigates serious abuses within the federal government.

Just who exactly is a public service union whistleblower expected to tattle to? Canada’s public service unions and the Liberal government are in bed together. Trudeau feathers their nest and they watch his back and faithfully vote in return.

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