Former Manitoba Mountie suing RCMP for systemic racism, discrimination – APTN News
Jul 14, 2020
Marge Hudson launched a proposed systemic racism class-action on July 7
A First Nations woman who worked as an RCMP officer for three decades claims she was subjected to “demeaning and humiliating” racist discrimination when she was a Mountie, according to a proposed class-action suit filed in Federal Court on July 7.
Margorie (Marge) Hudson launched the suit on behalf of all “racialized individuals” who suffered harms after being subjected to racism or racist acts while working for the federal police. It alleges racism is not an individual but rather a systemic problem in the RCMP.
The suit describes the alleged discrimination that Hudson experienced as “reckless, arrogant, high-handed, wanton, willful, reprehensible, vindictive, malicious and abusive.”
“The discrimination was so severe, the plaintiff began to feel that her enemy was not the criminal conduct with which she dealt during her career but rather the RCMP itself,” it says.
