Speaking out: former DND employee recounts journey to landmark sexual harassment ruling in new memoir

‘Silence was giving harassers and the employer the strength to keep humiliating and carrying on,’ says Bonnie Robichaud, a former Department of National Defence civilian employee.

In a new book, former DND civilian employee Bonnie Robichaud chronicles her journey through the courts to win a landmark Supreme Court ruling on sexual harassment, as the military continues to be embroiled within an ongoing sexual misconduct crisis decades later. Photograph courtesy of ZG Stories/Jessica Deeks

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 27, 2022

With complaints of misconduct and harassment in the military no longer “as hidden” as they once were, Bonnie Robichaud, a former Department of National Defence civilian employee whose harassment claim against a supervisor led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling 35 years ago, says she believes the...

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