Letters to the editor: ‘CBC seems to have the best of both worlds: government subsidy and an irritating amount of ads.’ Public funding, plus other letters to the editor for April 21

‘CBC seems to have the best of both worlds: government subsidy and an irritating amount of ads.’ Public funding, plus other letters to the editor for April 21

: Yes, civil servants should be politically neutral. Yes, they should serve the government of the day.

But what if staff see practices that are wrong or even merely staggeringly incompetent? What does duty demand: guilty obedience, or raising the alarm? Whistle-blowers should have to justify themselves in court. The test should be not whether ministers are embarrassed, but whether we’re all better off knowing what they’ve been up to.This sounds like, “I’m just following my orders,” which can absolve individuals from responsibility for things that go against personal integrity. This is how bureaucracies work from time to time, and sometimes with disastrous results to the general welfare.

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