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The Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR) was a Canadian public interest organization and registered
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whose purpose was to support legislation and management practices that protect whistleblowers.


Mission statement

FAIR's mission was to promote "integrity and accountability within government by empowering employees to speak out without fear of reprisal when they encounter wrongdoing" and to "support legislation and management practices that will provide effective protection for whistleblowers and hence occupational free speech in the workplace."


History and impact

FAIR was founded in 1998 by Joanna Gualtieri, a well-known whistleblower and a leading authority on Canadian whistleblower law. Under her leadership the organization played a key role in the shaping of Canadian legislation on whistleblowing and
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issues. It drafted the first Federal whistleblower protection legislation brought before the Parliament in Canada, which was introduced as a private members bill. It also provided testimony to the House Standing Legislative Committee and
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on May 10 and September 25, 2006 in advance of the passing of the ''Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act''. The organization has apparently ceased operation. The FAIR website, which is not longer operational, can be partially viewed in an archive hosted on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine FAIR website archive
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See also

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Whistleblower A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person, often an employee, who reveals information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent. Whi ...
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Government Accountability Project The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded in 1977. Activities In 1992, GAP represented Aldric Saucier, who had lost his job and security c ...


References

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