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	The POGG Golden Whistle Award Master Plaque

The Golden Whistle Award

The Golden Whistle Award is an annual award given by POGG (Peace, Order and Good Government), an Ottawa-based discussion group led by Harry Weldon. The award is sponsored by Canadians for Accountability and will be awarded annually to an individual who has done a service to Canada in the pursuit of truth in government.

Past year recipients can be viewed below.

2009 Award

This year is the second year year of the award. The recipient for 2009 is Bernard Payeur.

Bernard, working as a financial systems analyst in the Department of Foreign Affairs during the early 1980s, discovered that Foreign Affairs staff had defrauded the taxpayers of more than seven million dollars, and that the fraud had been going on for some time.

He reported his findings to persons senior to him in the expectation that the fraud would be stopped and the guilty persons brought to justice. To his dismay and subsequent sorrow his allegations were shunted aside and he was made out to be the villain as a disloyal and insubordinate employee, which eventually resulted in his dismissal.

Bernard was a pioneer in Canadian whistleblowing. His actions demonstrated the integrity and honesty that Canadians desire and expect from their government and public service, and his strenuous and noble fight against government employee abuse of taxpayers' money has inspired numerous others to stand up for what is right over the last 30 years.

We recommend that you read Bernard's acceptance speech; it provides an excellent description of the kangaroo court process he faced when trying to fight reprisals:

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Past Year Awards

2008 Golden Whistle Award

	Allan Cutler (left) and Harry Weldon (right) stand with Golden Whistle Award winner Perry Dunlop (centre)

The recipient for 2008 was Perry Dunlop, whose courageous actions in exposing the sexual abuse of minors in Cornwall, Ontario, cost him his reputation and his career. They also triggered the Cornwall Public Inquiry.

For a fuller description of the events and persons involved in the scandal, as well as Perry's actions, please visit Sylvia MacEachern's website. She also has a blog.

Read Perry Dunlop's acceptance speech:

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Page created March 25, 2009 | Last edited December 16, 2009