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Monday, February 13, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Vets board member says privacy violated Canadian Human Rights commission orders veterans board to pay man $4,000
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A prominent member of the country’s veterans review and appeal board had his privacy violated twice in an alleged smear campaign meant to discredit him and his decisions using his private medical information. Documents show the behindthe-scenes fight involving Harold Leduc has been so bad and so vicious that the Canadian Human Rights Commission quietly ordered the veterans board to pay the decorated former warrant officer $4,000. It’s the latest, and potentially the most wide-ranging, in a series of privacy breaches, which the Conservative government claimed was cleaned up at the veterans
department. In both 2009 and 2011, the government acknowledges Leduc’s privacy was violated — one of which was a serious breach where over 40 veterans department officials had access to his medical information. Leduc claims — because he was diagnosed with PTSD — he was a target for gossip, innuendo and intimidation because he often sided with veterans in his review decisions. Board chairman John Larlee declined a request for an interview, but a spokeswoman for the board said safeguarding privacy has been of the utmost concern. THE CANADIAN PRESS