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Canadian NGOs Supporting Accountability
Canadian Government Organizations Supporting Accountability
International Accountability and Whsitleblowing Organizations
Canadian NGOs Supporting Access to Information and Privacy Rights
Canadian Government Organizations Supporting Access to Information and Privacy Rights
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Canadian Non-governmental Organizations
Supporting Accountability
Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy
The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy is a Canadian charity dedicated to promoting and maintaining an ethical orientation and culture in Canadian organizations.
Democracy Watch
Democracy Watch is Canada's leading citizen group advocating democratic reform, government accountability and corporate responsibility, and the most successful national citizen advocacy group in Canada over the past 13 years in winning systemic changes to key laws.
Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR)
FAIR is our sister organization in Ottawa. It promotes integrity and accountability within government by empowering employees to speak out without fear of reprisal when they encounter wrongdoing.
GlobalResearch.ca
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research organization and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists. The CRG is based in Montreal. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Canadian Government Organizations
Supporting Accountability
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
The Commissioner and her office are intended to provide a means and mechanism for federal government employees to make disclosures concerning potential wrongdoing in their workplace, and to be protected from reprisal for making such disclosures. (Warning: seek advice before approaching the Office of the Integrity Commissioner with a report of wrongdoing.)
Auditor General of Canada
The Auditor General of Canada is an Independent officer of Parliament responsible for holding the federal government accountable for its stewardship of public funds. Her Office audits departments and agencies, most Crown corporations, and many other federal organizations.
International Accountability and Whistleblowing Organizations
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 30-year-old U.S. nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists in the U.S.
The National Whistlebowers Center
The NWC is an advocacy organization with a 20-year history of protecting the right of individuals to speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace without fear of retaliation.
Public Concern at Work
Public Concern at Work (PCaW) is the independent authority on public interest whistleblowing in the U.K. PCaW has played a leading role in putting whistleblowing on the governance agenda and in developing legislation in the UK and abroad.
Whistleblowers Australia
Whistleblowers Australia Inc. is an association for those who have exposed corruption or any form of malpractice in Australia, especially if they were then hindered or abused, and for those who are thinking of exposing it or who wish to support those who are doing so.
Canadian Non-governmental Organizations Supporting
Access to Information and Privacy Rights
B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
FIPA is a non-profit society dedicated to advancing freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada.
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) was established at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, in the fall of 2003. It is the first legal clinic of its kind in Canada.
PrivacyInfo.ca
PrivacyInfo.ca is a site maintained by Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. The site features summaries of all of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner's decisions under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Canadian Government Organizations Supporting
Access to Information and Privacy Rights
Infomation Commissioner of Canada
The Information Commissioner investigates complaints from people who believe they have been denied rights under the Access to Information Act — Canada's freedom of information legislation. An independent ombudsman appointed by Parliament, the Information Commissioner has strong investigative powers and mediates between dissatisfied applicants and government institutions.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada
The mandate of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) is overseeing compliance with both the Privacy Act, which covers the personal information-handling practices of federal government departments and agencies, and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s private sector privacy law.
Created: April 14, 2009, 2009
Last updated: February 8, 2010
