{"id":3892,"date":"2013-06-14T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T19:15:21","slug":"federal-whistleblower-law-full-of-loopholes-and-commissioner-is-a-lapdog-immediate-changes-needed-to-protect-whistleblowers-and-canadians-calgary-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/federal-whistleblower-law-full-of-loopholes-and-commissioner-is-a-lapdog-immediate-changes-needed-to-protect-whistleblowers-and-canadians-calgary-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Federal whistleblower law full of loopholes and commissioner is a lapdog, immediate changes needed to protect whistleblowers and Canadians <small>&#8212; <i>Calgary Herald<\/i><\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>As the world wrestles with the hero-or-traitor conundrum posed by ex-CIA technician Edward Snowden and his bombshell revelations about U.S. government surveillance of citizens\u2019 email and phone traffic, longtime promoters of the whistle-blowing movement \u2014 a now-global phenomenon launched by American political activist Ralph Nader in 1971 \u2014 are defending the informant ethic as a noble instinct and a crucial check on corruption, corporate malfeasance, excessive secrecy and other abuses of power in modern democracies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world wrestles with the hero-or-traitor conundrum posed by ex-CIA technician Edward Snowden and his bombshell revelations about U.S. government surveillance of citizens\u2019 email and phone traffic, longtime promoters of the whistle-blowing movement \u2014 a now-global phenomenon launched by American political activist Ralph Nader in 1971 \u2014 are defending the informant ethic as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}