It became so normalized that I really believed everybody else, all other women, were treated the same way. In the class there was a group of us. It's funny, I was just talking to my partner yesterday about that. We broke off into little groups and we had to explain what an ethical dilemma was and also a situation that we experienced. Everybody else said something, and I thought that seemed fine and normal, but when I told them something that happened to me, their mouths just dropped to the ground and they couldn't believe it. They said, “Sherry, you're not supposed to put up with that. Didn't you know that?” In training they never told us anything about that. They didn't tell us that you have the right to say, “Don't do that”. They didn't tell us how to defend ourselves within the RCMP and within our own detachments when it came to harassment. What harassment could be was never, ever discussed. Specifically, they never talked about abuse of power either.
On May 23rd, 2013. See this statement in context.