Island whistleblowers consider legal options after report on privacy violation
Two whistleblowers whose private information was leaked in brown envelopes from Prince Edward Island’s government to the Liberal Party say they won’t fade away without being compensated for the economic and emotional toll on their lives.
A report released last month by the privacy commissioner — completed six years after the initial complaint — found the province breached the basic privacy rights of three women who held a September 2011 news conference to allege fraud and bribery in a provincial immigration program.
Susan Holmes, a former manager in the provincial government’s Population Secretariat, said she’s been refused a meeting with Premier Wade MacLauchlan to discuss the ruling and possible ways to “make a wrong right.”
She is now seeking a lawyer willing to take on her case, the 61-year-old said.