Justice Bastarache, women in the labour movement over the years have made great advances in the cause of gender equity and programs to stop harassment within the workforce. We know now that the RCMP is unionized and has a collective bargaining process. Janet Merlo recently made a public statement that women in the RCMP ought to get involved in the union and work with it to try to bring about change to prevent this type of harassment continuing. Do you have any confidence in that approach? One might also say, why should it be left to them to fix it? Should it not be something we should be able to make happen, with outside pressure?
On December 2nd, 2020. See this statement in context.