What mechanisms were in place to protect the women? There were none. We were the most studied group—speaking just for the women in the RCMP—starting in the mid-1970s. Report after report flagged the problems.
We had a toxic leadership issue—it always comes down to leadership—and the organizational response wasn't there. The parliamentarians who showed the courage to tell the RCMP to do that weren't doing the follow-up. In 1984, a division rep asked me to put in a submission to Ottawa. They were looking at affirmative action. Already it was hot.