I can hear the world's smallest violin playing just for this guy right now.
From reading on a few other sites, several former and present public servants have said that they had to sign confidentiality agreements to get the job, and that a possible punishment for violation of confidentiality is arrest. If this guy signed one, then he should face to consequences like an adult.
He also gave out sensitive information that was going to affect the market value of a great number of publicly traded companies. Not that for sure, but it is a possibility that the information could have been passed on privately before the whole public leak, and that's what the investigation was about.
And all that he had happend was to be shamed in front of his former co-workers and spend a couple hours talking to the cops. Boo Hoo. He went out of his way to try and embarass someone, got embarassed back. And just imagine what would have been his fate if he were in one of numerous other countries where they judge first and ask questions later.
Also, everyone needs to stop calling this guy a whistleblower. He wasn't exposing any type of criminal or unethical behaviour which he had knowledge of that was being covered up. This guy has a clear agenda, which is further evidenced by his band's album title, blogs on the band's myspace and photo on their myspace page of an airplane headed towards the parliament buildings. You think that if the NDP(or whatever party he supports) was in government, he would be leaking information...HELL NO. I also wonder about the NDP supporting this guy considering the accolades shown on the band's myspace, or did they not bother to see what kind of person he was before defending him quickly to try and score points. My guess is he's looking for his attempt at political martyrdom (at least in his mind it is) or he's just trying to score some attention for his band...because upon listening to their songs on myspace, it's pretty clear that they need all the attention they can get and wherever it can come from, whatever distracts people from realizing their music is terrible. And I happen to like a lot of punk bands, but these guys just plain suck.
Also, after his little sob session in front of the cameras, it was clear that this guy couldn't stand still for a period longer than 3 seconds or read even one sentence out loud properly from a prepared speech. I couldn't help but wonder how he got a job there in the first place. Hopefully he's an outlier on the lower end of the spectrum for what we can expect out of a public servant.