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Summaries of Investigations Reports

The Public Service Commission (PSC) regularly posts summaries of investigations on this Web site to provide the human resources community and the broader public service with a better understanding of the types of investigations it conducts.

The summaries are listed according to sections and subsections of the Public Service Employment Act, and are grouped under the following: Disclosure summaries and Anonymous summaries.

These summaries focus on the PSC's investigations into allegations of appointments involving fraud and of improper municipal, federal, provincial or territorial political activities by public servants. The PSC may also consider disclosing summaries relating to investigations concerning external appointment processes and those affected by political influence.

Section 19 of the Public Service Employment Regulations (PSER) gives the PSC the authority to disclose personal information obtained in the course of an appointment process investigation, if the disclosure would:

  • Promote fair and transparent employment practices;
  • Promote accountability;
  • Ensure that action is taken to correct wrongdoing or improper employment practices and prevent recurrences of such practices; or
  • Encourage the adoption or continuance of proper employment practices.

Section 14 of the Political Activities Regulations (PAR) gives the PSC the authority to disclose personal information obtained in the course of an investigation into an alleged improper political activity, if the disclosure would:

  • Promote political impartiality in the public service;
  • Promote accountability;
  • Ensure that action is taken to correct improper political activity on the part of employees or deputy heads, or prevent the recurrence of such activity; or
  • Encourage the adoption or continuance of proper practices regarding political activity on the part of employees or deputy heads.

In addition, both sections of the respective regulations require that the PSC, prior to disclosure of any personal information that could infringe on privacy interests, consider whether the public interest in disclosure outweighs those privacy interests.

In the summaries that follow, the PSC assessed the personal information contained on a case-by-case basis, considered the reasons for disclosure contained in the regulations, assessed whether the public interest in disclosure outweighed privacy interests and determined that it should disclose personal information pursuant to the PSER and the PAR.

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Date Modified:
2011-12-23