A Saskatoon-based healthcare worker who was suspended without pay not long after blowing the whistle about the living conditions of senior citizens in the institution at which he works is now having his case reviewed by the provincial privacy commissioner, Ronald Kruzeniski, CBC reports. Healthcare worker Peter Bowden had testified about the conditions to the legislature last month and was then later suspended. NDP Opposition Leader Cam Broten said Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall “is directing his chief of operations and communications to intentionally leak confidential employment information to the media.” In a column, Murray Mandryk queries, “why is it necessary, Mr. Premier, to breach the privacy of a health employee who is suddenly being disciplined after going public with complaints about the health system?”
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