The issue of rewarding whistleblowers was dealt with at that time and was rejected by the committee for a couple of reasons: first, because under the Criminal Code there is an obligation on those who are aware of crimina
l offences to bring them forward and, if they do not, they would in fact be equally culpable because they would be protecting a criminal; and second, there are oaths of office that
our public servants take and under those oaths they are to protect the assets of the Crown and a
...[+++]re obligated to take all necessary action to do that.
Lors de l'étude du projet de loi, le comité s'est demandé s'il fallait récompenser les dénonciateurs et, pour diverses raisons, il a conclu que non. Premièrement, en vertu du Code criminel, toute personne au courant d'infractions criminelles a l'obligation d'en faire état, à défaut de quoi, elle est considérée également coupable parce qu'elle protège un criminel.