CFE Creates Eminent Working Group on Whistleblower Protection in the Private Sector
The Centre for Free Expression (CFE) announced today that eight leading experts have agreed to join a new CFE working group on whistleblower protection in the Canadian private sector.
“We are honoured to have such an eminent group join our working group and excited about the possibilities the group will create for CFE to more effectively identify and promote meaningful policies and best practices in the private sector to protect those who speak up about wrongdoing,” said James L. Turk, Director of the CFE.
“We can only fix serious problems when we know about them, and whistleblowers are an important, often the only, way we can know.”
The working group will be chaired by Sandy Boucher, Corporate Investigator, Grant Thornton LLP Advisory Services. The members are Norman Baldwin, Managing Partner. GRC Vista Risk Consulting and MPF Specialized Research; Bonnie Bidgoli, Senior Director-Employee Conduct, Royal Bank of Canada; Dave Chu, Head of Integrity Remediation & Monitoring, AtkinsRéalis; Peter German, President and Executive Director, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy; Anna Myers, Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network (WIN); Jeffrey Simser, Barrister and Solicitor and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute; and Michele Wood-Tweel, Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs, CPA Canada.
The Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University is a non-partisan platform focused on freedom of expression and the public’s right to know. CFE ‘s work consists in public education and engagement; commentaries; advocacy for law reform; working with courts; advising governments; and providing training and assistance for the protection and promotion of intellectual freedom, academic freedom, artistic freedom, public interest whistleblowing, and freedom of the press.
