e-3240 (Employment and labour)
- Keywords
- Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board
- Disclosure of wrongdoing in the workplace
- Public Service and public servants
- Transportation safety
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- All Canadians must be free to report any wrongdoing they discover in the course of their work without fear of retaliation;
- Confidence in public institutions is enhanced by establishing effective procedures for the disclosure of wrongdoing and the protection of public servants who make such disclosures;
- The Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act (CTAISBA) prohibits the Transport Safety Board of Canada’s (TSB) investigators from finding fault and making criminal referrals to law enforcement, including cases where the TSB investigators find evidence of potential criminal conduct by the transport companies they are investigating;
- The TSB demoted its incident investigator, Mr. Don Crawford, for disclosing potential criminality to the media regarding the fatal derailment of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s train 301 near Field, British Columbia, on February 4, 2019;
- To date, TSB has effectively deprived TSB investigators of whistleblower protections and a safe environment to report potential criminal wrongdoing that the investigators have uncovered during their investigations; and
- Public servants, such as Mr. Crawford, should be lauded, rather than punished, for directing public attention to potential criminal conduct that endangers workers and the public.
- Open for signature
- March 8, 2021, at 3:24 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 6, 2021, at 3:24 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Niki Ashton
(Churchill—Keewatinook Aski)
June 21, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01179)