The Manitoba government denies it failed to renew the contract of a consultant working on a software project for the province because of a whistleblower complaint he filed — or even that the province had an agreement with him.
In a lawsuit filed in July, David Morash claimed the province breached his contract and violated the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act by failing to renew his contract after he filed a disclosure to the Manitoba ombudsman.
Morash was working on an IT project for the province and in his lawsuit, he claims his contract wasn't renewed because in a whistleblower complaint to the ombudsman in August 2024, he "alleged wrongdoing" and that the project was being "grossly mismanaged" by the province.
The Manitoba government filed a statement of defence Sept. 26 at Court of King's Bench, denying it breached any law or any contract relative to the lawsuit.
The court document says the province did not have an agreement with Morash or his numbered company but had an information technology resource agreement with a different company, which was responsible for payments to Morash.
In response to Morash's allegations of wrongdoing at the provincial government department, the defence statement says the province neither admits nor denies those allegations, and the whistleblower protection law (the Public Interest Disclosure Act) prohibits disclosing...
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