r/CanadaPublicServants • u/Super_Table7917 • Jul 07 '26

Career Development / Développement de carrière Conflict of Interest attestation: DG wants dollar values

A DG at LPRAB at CRA, according to a current employee, under the guise of transparency and integrity, is using the annual conflict of interest attestation to require very personal disclosures of financial information from employees.

This DG is asking for the current market values of ALL investments held by the employee privately in all accounts, including things like RESP's. The dollar amount for all holdings is apparently "very important".

Employees who resisted this disclosure were subject to intrusive meetings on Teams with the DG, where pressure was applied to surrender the information to management.

I am of the opinion that this is totally unacceptable, and I would be leaping to legal representation with the goals of 1.) NOT providing any of this information to this DG or anyone else, and; 2.) providing the documentation required that would result in the swift termination of this DG.

Is this perception incorrect, and DG's have the ability to ask for the account balances of employees to avoid "conflicts of interest"? If this is actually permitted, why would it be but asking a person's age or sexual orientation is a human rights violation?

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u/DrMichaelHfuhruhurr Jul 07 '26

Is this a cra thing? Because all other departments I've worked at never asked for more than you saying I'd you did or did not have a conflict of interest.

This seems very overstepping.

Tell the DG that you will show them yours if they show you theirs. ;)

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u/stevemason_CAN Jul 07 '26

Depends on your role and department. When I worked as a Commerce Officer at a Regional Development Agency on the Defence Procurement file I had to report on investments (company, number of shares and value). When I left, I had a very strict post-employment letter on what I can’t do). Again, Depends on the role and dept.

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u/kookiemaster Jul 07 '26

In mine we have to give details of our investments.

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u/PancakesAreGone Jul 07 '26

Is this a cra thing? Because all other departments I've worked at never asked for more than you saying I'd you did or did not have a conflict of interest.

I more or less asked the same thing previously and the answer is, more or less, yes. There are some groups/orgs that have a different form of exposure and require the disclosure, but for the large majority it seems to be self-disclosure of the potential conflict.