"ACTION PLANS" , MOUNTIES & OTHER DISCREDITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

Last Wednesday's Waterloo Region Record carried another story concerning lawsuits versus the Mounties namely "Lawyer urges RCMP to settle harassment case". Apparently the Mounties like many like minded organizations caught in the act of bad behaviour have developed an "Action Plan". Sometimes these action plans are entirely for show and public relations. In a sense it's an acknowledgement that yes there is a problem but it can also be used a smoke and mirrors. "Oh look we've stopped doing wrong and aren't we on the right track now.". Meanwhile if they aren't seriously willing to address the past harm they've done then these action plans are all about distraction and changing the channel as in look to the future not the past.

According to lawyer David Klein his client Janet Merlo is trying to get her action acknowledged as a class action suit. Initially her lawyer suggested they had up to 100 officers willing to join but now he states the figure is closer to 300 of which a third are still active members of the RCMP. It takes a special kind of organization with really special people at the top to let a problem of this magnitude fester for so long. Perhaps somewhere in the future these cases will be in criminal courts rather than civil where the big organizations and big bucks have the advantage. Shame on our once proud national force but mostly shame on those in charge and the politiicians who put them there.