This past July I wrote two posts on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance fraud every year. An update on her fate, published in today’s Star, reveals that she has been fired. The alleged
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Politics and its Discontents: More On The E.I Whistleblower
The other day I wrote a post on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance fraud every year. The “fraud quotas” were just one aspect of an office culture that encouraged cutting benefits from as
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Whistleblower Sylvie Therrien suspended after leaking Canada’s EI rejection ‘quotas’(VIDEO)
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Sylvie Therrien did not feel right about kicking people off Employment Insurance to meet an Conservative Government mandated quota. Another insider blows the whistle on government behaviour. Now she has not had to flee the country but she has been suspended and may lose her job
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Government Suspends Whistleblower For Revealing E.I. Wichhunt
Ordinary Canadians are assumed to be criminals while the Harper government turns a blind eye to Senate corruption. Sylvie Therrien, a federal fraud investigator, has been suspended without pay after she leaked documents showing that investigators had to cut people off their employment insurance benefits in order to meet quotas.
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