Border agency delves into workers’ personal lives with ‘integrity’ survey
Source: The Globe and Mail
The Canada Border Services Agency is asking its employees whether they have ever hired hookers, if they have ever taken Prozac, how much they drink and gamble – even whether they’ve ever threatened a pet.
In a voluntary “integrity questionnaire” unheard of in the Canadian civil service (or possibly within any government), the 23-page document basically asks employees to admit to anything bad that they’ve ever done.
... It asks employees to disclose what kinds of booze they drink, whether they’ve ever seen bestiality on the Internet, and what kind of illicit drugs they’ve ever taken along with how they paid for them.
... “Wow … This is a concerning level of detail that may fall afoul of human rights law and privacy laws,” says Micheal Vonn, a policy director with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.
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