shockedcanadian
Diamond Member
- Aug 6, 2012
- 29,874
- 27,141
This is the standard Eastern Bloc mentality of the RCMP. There have been calls to disband them for years. With their surrogates at the OPP, TPS and Peel Region operating with impunity as well, including stabbing foreign businesses in the back, it's clear Canada is in deep trouble.
Judge slams Mounties for 'outrageous' harassment, awarding sergeant $141,000 in bullying lawsuit
Senior RCMP officials serially harassed a decorated investigator over a period of years, derailing his career and causing him severe emotional distress, an Ontario judge ruled Tuesday.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Mary Vallee awarded Sgt. Peter Merrifield, who is still with the force, a total of $141,000 in general and special damages in the case. She called the RCMP’s conduct toward him “outrageous” and “beyond all standards of what is right and decent.”
“Not only did Mr. Merrifield suffer from significant mental-health issues as a result of the actions taken by the RCMP,” she wrote, “those actions also stained his reputation.”
Tuesday’s decision brought an end to a sometimes sordid case that stretched on for 10 years, featured secret witnesses and saw a senior Mountie admit, on the stand, that he once tried to solicit a prostitute in London, Ont.
The ruling is only the latest in a series of dark marks against the RCMP, which has been dogged for years by accusations of a toxic internal culture rife with bullying and harassment.
Judge slams Mounties for 'outrageous' harassment, awarding sergeant $141,000 in bullying lawsuit
Senior RCMP officials serially harassed a decorated investigator over a period of years, derailing his career and causing him severe emotional distress, an Ontario judge ruled Tuesday.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Mary Vallee awarded Sgt. Peter Merrifield, who is still with the force, a total of $141,000 in general and special damages in the case. She called the RCMP’s conduct toward him “outrageous” and “beyond all standards of what is right and decent.”
“Not only did Mr. Merrifield suffer from significant mental-health issues as a result of the actions taken by the RCMP,” she wrote, “those actions also stained his reputation.”
Tuesday’s decision brought an end to a sometimes sordid case that stretched on for 10 years, featured secret witnesses and saw a senior Mountie admit, on the stand, that he once tried to solicit a prostitute in London, Ont.
The ruling is only the latest in a series of dark marks against the RCMP, which has been dogged for years by accusations of a toxic internal culture rife with bullying and harassment.
