OTTAWA — The regime to investigate wrongdoing and protect whistleblowers within the federal government is on the verge of collapse under a relentless surge of allegations and complaints, Canada’s integrity commissioner says — and this week’s fiscal update did nothing to address the growing problem.
Sitting down inside her sparsely decorated office near Parliament Hill on Wednesday, public sector integrity commissioner Harriet Solloway described how her team of nine investigators and seven lawyers is drowning under a deepening caseload it doesn’t have the resources to get under control.
