Earlier this week, I blogged that hundreds of current and former female Mounties from across Canada had launched a class-action lawsuit alleging harassment within the ranks of the RCMP. Yesterday, Valerie MacLean, a well-known British Columbian and former head of the Better Business Bureau, joined the lawsuit, according to the CBC News.
MacLaren’s story echoes that of Corporal Catherine Galliford, who filed a claim of being sexually harassed by her male superiors during her 16 year career with the RCMP. She alleges that her supervisor harassed her as a young RCMP constable in Maple Ridge in the late 1970s.
“He would, eight hours, on the shift, tell me that if I was friendly, if we had a relationship, it would be good for my career because he was doing my assessment.”
“Years later, nothing has changed,” MacLean told the Nanaimo News Bulletin. “This systemic culture in the RCMP of harassment . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive World: High profile ex-Mountie joins hundreds of Canadian women in RCMP lawsuit