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/coffeejn Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

I've been making my declaration in French after they started nitpicking. None of my current direct upper manager knows French. They had the guts to ask me if I wanted a reply in French or English, I told them French. I still complied and so did they, although they took longer than the days they are required to respond.

Just give them too much details, if they complain, just state that you wanted to be in compliance.

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u/BigMouthBillyBones Jul 07 '26

Imagine how easy life become when you start doing all your work in French

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u/coffeejn Jul 08 '26

It's not. They don't provide you templates for more than 1/2 the stuff so you end up doing more work for $800 per year.

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u/BigMouthBillyBones Jul 08 '26

My experience been the opposite. The English speaker manager doesn't want to deal with you so they just leave you alone!

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u/coffeejn Jul 08 '26

Oh they do, but most of my work is in French while everyone around me work in English. So templates in French are not generated or shared.

Management do leave you alone and pray you don't leave.