Dear Editor,

In 2010 the G20 countries committed to put in place measures intended to protect whistleblowers. In 2014 a study was done to examine measures that had been taken by each member country in pursuance of this noble intent, and to suggest what can be done to improve each country’s effort.

In the Executive summary of the report we read this – “lacking strong legal protection government and corporate employee who report wrongdoing to their managers or to regulators can face dismissal, harassment and other forms of retribution. With employees deterred from coming forward, government and corporate misconduct can be perpetuated.” Further, the writers made this bold statement “Whistleblowing is now considered to be among the most effective, if not the most effective means to expose and remedy corruption, fraud and other types of wrong doing in the public and private sectors.” Indeed, over the years we have seen examples of how vital whistleblowers were for exposing and bringing corrupt politicians and business men, to justice. President Nixon was brought down and forced to leave office by the revelations of a whistleblower known as “Deep Throat.” Donald Trump’s businesses have been attracting the attention of the law in New York for over 15 years. In recent times, New York has been able to get its hands on documents revealing suspicious transactions by Trump’s business. However, New York struggled to make sense of many of these documents, and in other cases unable to...

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