A Toronto Police constable is seeking millions in compensation from the association that represents officers, saying it refused to represent her as some people in association positions actively sexually harassed and assaulted her.
Const. Heather McWilliam is asking the Ontario Police Arbitration Commission to order the Toronto Police Association repay her for years of legal fees, travel expenses and other costs associated with fighting her claim on her own, as well as punitive damages that add up to over $30 million.
“All members deserve to come to work and be free from unwanted harassment or discrimination. We have a variety of processes that ensures all members… are represented fairly and provided with their entitlements set out in our collective agreements,” the TPA said in a statement. Const. McWilliam’s complaint alleges the TPA has been all three, pointing to instances where association officials chose to represent the people she complained about but not providing resources to her. The complaint says TPA representatives made sexually charged comments about her body, and one sexually assaulted her during a parade in 2009.
Another said, “She had better be nice to him and the guys in the TPA in case one day Const. McWilliam may need them because they only support financially those they know and like.” “The TPA representatives were a part of a toxic workplace culture that degraded women and discriminated against Const. McWilliam and other female officers and members of the community… the TPA supported Const. McWilliam’s abusers and preferred them over Constable McWilliam,” the complaint says.
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