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Monday, June 27, 2005
Whistleblower: Passport Office
Stockwell Day, Official Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic, is to hand over to the Auditor General documents brought to him by a Passport Canada employee, which alleges serious breaches of security and procedure."This employee apparently tried to get superiors to consider the extensive catalogue of improprieties within the Passport Office," said Day. "When officials found out that this person had met with me as a Member of Parliament, the employee was then subjected to a series of highly questionable repercussions."
Day said the whole matter requires a serious review by people in the Auditor General's Office who are equipped to handle high level allegations of this nature.
Allegations with documentation include:
Security Breaches - Unacceptable levels of errors and oversights in the granting of passports puts the security of the passport application process in serious question. Examples include everything from non-citizens being granted citizen passports, to guarantors who have not even given their correct (or any) last names.
Improper Hiring - Proper job competition guidelines have allegedly been ignored with multiple cases of hiring of relatives and friends without due process being followed.
Misinformation Given to Standing Committee on Public Accounts - It is alleged that a Senior Bureaucrat presented false information to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, indicating that high levels of security were realized due to the possession and use of high-tech equipment, which it is now alleged, does not even exist (or did not at the time).
Whistleblower Wrongly Suspended - An employee with information on the above issues had apparently spoken to superiors without avail. Then, when the employee decided the inaction was too extreme to be left unaddressed and went to an M.P., they were allegedly wrongly dismissed.
Something tells me that none of this will come as a surprise to her.
Posted by Kate McMillan on June 27, 2005 | Permalink
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