Number of reports hit new records in 2024-25
Formal disclosures of suspected wrongdoing made under Canada’s whistleblowing legislation climbed from 247 submissions in 2020-21 to 626 last year, according to official reports. Allegations of reprisal for making protected disclosures also rose from 46 to 89 during the same period. Both numbers are the highest on record since the implementation of Canada’s main whistleblowing law twenty years ago.
Canada’s whistleblowing legislation is designed to encourage public servants to make disclosures of suspected wrongdoing and to protect them from reprisal for doing so. It identifies six types of wrongdoing that can be reported, including gross mismanagement, misuse of public funds and contraventions of law.
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