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Nearly ten years after the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s final report, Canada’s federal government continues to fight Indigenous groups from across the country seeking access to records surrounding residential schools. For this continued denial of access, it has been resoundingly selected as this year’s recipient of the federal Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy.

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.

TORONTO—The Centre for Free Expression, BC Civil Liberties Association, and Animal Justice are pleased with an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that reaffirms legislatures cannot entirely shield executive decisions from judicial review.

In its tenth report analyzing adequacy of provincial whistleblower protection laws in Canada, the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) finds that, although Alberta’s legislation [Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act] has more best practices than any other major jurisdiction in Canada, it still has significant shortcomings which fatally undermine a proper whistleblower protection regime.