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In March 2004, Pieters complained to the Public Service Integrity Office that the politically appointed board members who are supposed to decide the fate of refugee claims were violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act by not writing their own decisions.
The refugee protection officer also went to the media with his allegations that civil servants were the ones who were doing the decision-making.
Following a probe by a board-hired investigator, IRB chairman Jean-Guy Fleury conceded "improper conduct occurred" in three cases and "appropriate administrative measures" were taken against four board members.
In firing him last month, executive director Marilyn Stuart-Major credited Pieters with exposing the wrongdoing in which he participated.
However, she lashed out at him for his "deliberate fabrication" in calling the problems at the board "systemic," and for alleging a "code of silence" existed around the misconduct.
"Rather than raising your own misconduct and that of the members concerned internally, you instead chose to go to the media with a story replete with exaggeration and falsehood with a view to damaging the board in a dramatic and public fashion," Stuart-Major wrote in a letter obtained by The Canadian Press.