The CEO of one of Canada's national museums committed serious code of conduct breaches by yelling, mistreating staff and using inappropriate language including calling a senior leadership team "sluts" publicly, the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner's investigation found.

In a report published Wednesday, Commissioner Harriet Solloway found that Marie Chapman, who holds the most senior job at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, engaged in a pattern of behaviour over a decade that caused emotional harm to employees.

The report says some people impacted reported contemplating self-harm.

"This was not a one-time lapse in judgment, but a repeated problem that persisted for over a decade," Solloway said in a video statement.

"This sort of breach poses a

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