What the prime minister did wouldn’t be tolerated in any office across Canada that abides by Treasury Board standards. But it seems to be in his
A publication on workplace harassment, issued by the Treasury Board in Ottawa, provides a detailed guide to “improper or offensive conduct” in the workplace.
The crucial part of the rules, however, is this: in most cases, the guidelines stipulate, “more than one act or event is needed.” And ignorance is no defence. The test is whether “the respondent knew or reasonably ought to have known that such behaviour would cause offence or harm.
Butts pleaded a similar lack of awareness, insisting he had no idea of the depth of Wilson-Raybould’s frustration at the repeated attempts to have her revisit her decision on Lavalin’s prosecution. When she raised her objections in opposing their plan to shuffle her out of her job, both he and Trudeau were taken aback, Butts testified.
The treatment of Wilson-Raybould appears to violate several other tests used to establish harassment included in the guidelines: Trudeau and Butts both maintain it hadn’t occurred to them that Wilson-Raybould might resist a transfer to Indigenous Services, though Michael Wernick, clerk of the privy council, told the justice committee everyone in Ottawa knew she’d never want the job.
To recap, according to his government’s guidelines, the prime minister violated key provisions of workplace harassment legislation, and followed up by removing the complainant from her job and assigning her to a post that could be reasonably deemed inferior to the one she had. If he was an office manager at … oh, let’s say a Montreal engineering firm … and treated an employee like that, he’d be lucky to hang onto his job.
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