The documents show how David Vigneault and his staff responded to The Canadian Press report published on Nov. 30, in which CSIS officers made allegations of rape, bullying and harassment in the service's B.C. physical surveillance office.
David Vigneault, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service , prepares to appear before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs , studying the intimidation campaign against Members of Parliament, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
The statistics about workplace sexual harassment and violence were compiled as part of Vigneault's preparations for an all-staff town hall meeting about the allegations on Dec. 5. But in May, CSIS released an annual public report that said there were 24 ongoing harassment investigations in 2023, depicting this as a sign of success.
"On occasion, a notice of occurrence may take longer to resolve given other mitigating circumstances that may have an impact on the process," Balsam said. "For example, the temporary absence of either party, or availability of investigators." The officers said they could not go to police because they feared breaching the CSIS Act by identifying themselves and their alleged attacker as covert officers, an offence with a penalty of up to five years in prison.
She said in an interview that the behaviour of the new senior manager prompted the group to "come to me with concerns." "I'm in a position where I have to say something and in saying something, I'm probably not going to be believed," she said. "No one was going to want to touch me after that.""It was making me sick," she said. "I couldn't bear the weight of it anymore and I thought I had nowhere else to go."
But the assessment did not look at the complaints of sexual assault and other wrongdoing made by the two women officers against their senior colleague, who was decades older than them, the documents show. “There is a general sense that accountability is significantly lacking and that the enforcement of policies and procedures is often weak,” the assessors wrote.
The two B.C. officers who said they were sexually assaulted lodged anonymous lawsuits in B.C. Supreme Court.
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