Sexual-Harassment Claims Against RCMP Reach 336

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A senior RCMP communications adviser alleging sexual harassment and assault by a superior officer is the latest to join more than 300 women with similar claims across Canada in seeking legal action against the force.

The lawyer bringing the class action said in the two years since the lawsuit was filed, hundreds of women, one-third of them still with the force, have come forward.

“When we hit 100 I was surprised,” said lawyer David Klein of Klein Lyons, the firm handling the class action. “As we hit 200, I was less surprised, and then 300 even less, because we were beginning to have a sense of the magnitude of the internal problem at the RCMP with women in the force.” – Read More

 

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