"TIMES UP" at CANADA'S SPY AGENCY. ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT and HARASSMENT.
"The women are among four officers with the B.C. CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] physical surveillance unit who say it was a toxic workplace where bullying, harassment and worse went unchecked, and where young female officers were victimized."
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Why the incidents were not reported at the time.
"They said they felt unable to go to police, in part because of an obligation to secrecy, including a law against identifying themselves or others as CSIS officers, and a belief the organization would cover things up."
Harassment by a male Mountie against a woman colleague at the Kelowna, BC detachment resulted in her pulling her service weapon to stop the treatment in a common detachment room. Male colleagues didn't try to stop the male mistreating his colleague. There is no indication in the report that Hess, the harasser was punished.
Women Mounties win multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Force for harassment and sexual misconduct.
"As of Nov. 15, 2018, independent assessor Michel Bastarache — a former Supreme Court justice — had waded through about a quarter of the claims, rendering 809 decisions out of 3,131 claims."
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