Canada Needs Better Protections, Too

In news from the North, a breakout of listeriosis in Canada could possibly have been avoided by the government’s implementation of stronger whistleblower protections. The listeriosis outbreak (caused by food-borne bacteria) has claimed 20 lives and become a huge political topic in that country. From Canada’s Epoch Times:

An article published in The Hill Times by former Health Canada whistle-blower Dr. Michele Brill-Edwards, former Foreign Affairs whistle-blower Brian McAdam, and David Hutton, executive director of FAIR, said effective whistleblower protection laws might have prompted someone from inside the food safety system to step forward.

“Our contention is that, regardless of other failures in the food safety system, this tragedy might have been averted by warnings from people working within the system – if only we had effective laws to protect truth-tellers. This is not a fanciful notion, but one that is supported by studies of numerous previous disasters,” the activists wrote.

The Canadian group FAIR (Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform) is a partner organization of GAP.

-- Dylan Blaylock

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Whistleblowing occurs when a person in an organization brings to the attention of someone in higher authority, within the organization or outside of it, or brings to the attention of the public, acts by the organization that are illegal, or contrary to the public interest.

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