CFIA execs grossly mismanaged harassment complaints, watchdog says
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal public sector watchdog says two senior executives at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency committed “gross mismanagement” in their handling of three serious harassment complaints in 2014-15.
Joe Friday, the public safety integrity commissioner, draws that conclusion in a report tabled today in Parliament.
He says Bruce Archibald, the former president of the agency, and Gerard Etienne, then the body’s vice-president of human resources, failed to take appropriate action to deal with complaints filed against an unidentified senior executive.
Archibald left the public service last fall and Etienne now is the agency’s vice-president of operations.