B.C. Mountie taking RCMP to court over dismissal of workplace harassment complaint
A B.C. Mountie is taking the RCMP to the Federal Court after she says a workplace harassment complaint she made about misogynistic behaviour by a fellow officer was wrongly dismissed.
Patapoff says she didn’t want to do any “dry firing” – discharging a gun without live ammunition – ahead of her test in order to preserve her hand strength, but that the line officer told her to. She did some of the practice firing and, afterwards, she says the line officer told her “to go home, get a bottle of Windex, and get into [her] kitchen and bathroom and just start cleaning” to strengthen her trigger finger.
The officer also repeatedly called Patapoff “itty-bitty” and commented on her height, according to the Federal Court application. A year-and-a-half later, on Feb. 16, 2023, the investigator looking into Patapoff’s complaint said he didn’t believe it constituted harassment. He said he thought the line officer hadn’t meant to cause harm and that Patapoff’s experience was likely coloured by the stress of taking her test.
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