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The woman cannot be named because of a law banning identification of covert officers, but she is called “Jane Doe” in a previous lawsuit against the government.She and another surveillance officer in the CSIS British Columbia office said they were both sexually assaulted in service vehicles by the same senior officer while on missions between July 2019 to spring 2021.
An email from the labour officer on Tuesday, which Jane Doe shared with The Canadian Press, says the report was not “intentionally hidden.” Making a workplace harassment complaint is a “protected activity,” Malone said, and complainants who become targets of investigations without their knowledge are in “a very vulnerable position.”
Days after the story was published, Vigneault called a town-hall meeting for all 3,000-plus CSIS staff about the women’s allegations that he said left him “deeply troubled.” He told staff the alleged rapist had left the service the day before the meeting, and that he was ordering the “urgent” creation of an ombudsperson’s office to handle workplace problems “without fear of reprisal.”Vigneault also said the agency would release annual public reports on harassment and wrongdoing in the agency.
The report says Jane Doe did not report the “relationship” over “fear of reprisals,” quoting her as indicating that she “was afraid of how it would affect my employment in the service, how it affect my reputation and my ability to continue working there, and I was not mentally and emotionally in a position to accept what had happened.”
“It was like he wasn’t asking so that he didn’t have to have the answer, so that he wouldn’t have to include that in any of his findings, so the less he knows the better,” she said.