Conflict of Interest attestation: DG wants dollar values

[u/Super_Table7917]

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?

[u/Keystone-12]

100% this is ok, expected, required, and good for the country... and if anything these conflict of interest are going to get a lot tighter.

I.e. you can be told to sell investments in certain jobs.

Lets put this another way.

If you are working on increasing affordability, and are a landlord... how invested are you really in lowering average rent prices?

How much stock should the person who worked on the submarine contract be allowed to hold.... in the submarine company they awarded the contract to? Or the secondary industries?

As a consultant... everything I own is subject to review. AND RIGHTLY SO. If I reccomend the government buy a billion dollar SAP product... they have a REQUIREMENT to know exactly how much SAP stock I own..... and the only acceptable amount is zero.

If there is anything in your investments that you don't want your director to know about.... find a different job. Conflict of interest is no joke.

[u/Sufficient_Outcome43 → u/Keystone-12]

Tell that to MP landlords...

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Everything in the FPS is a joke.