OTTAWA – While Mark Carney’s government splurges tens of billions in the Spring Economic Update, the one department screaming for help to root out corruption gets the cold shoulder: the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner’s office is on the verge of total collapse.
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Harriet Solloway didn’t mince words. Her tiny team of just nine investigators and seven lawyers is “drowning” under a “relentless surge” of allegations. Over 300 complaints from whistleblowers sit unread. Dozens of probes into potential federal misconduct will drag on for years. The regime meant to protect truth-tellers and punish crooks inside government? It’s failing fast.
This isn’t ancient history from the Trudeau era. This is now, under Carney’s Liberals. They had the chance to fund the cleanup in this week’s fiscal update. They said no. Not surprising from a government already dodging ethics scrutiny over conflicts, assets, and insider dealings.
Canadians deserve answers: What exactly are all these whistleblowers exposing? Why starve the only independent cop on the federal beat while pouring money everywhere else? The busiest “department” in Carney’s Ottawa shouldn’t be the one too broke to investigate the scandals piling up.
The integrity watchdog is overwhelmed. The government doesn’t care. And the stench of unchecked wrongdoing grows stronger by the day.
