THE LAW IS STILL AN ASS - USE AND ABUSE OF THE LAW CONTINUES (KELLY DONOVAN)

It is my recollection that a couple of years ago, lawyer James Bennet, on behalf of the Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS), actually admitted that many female police officers had been treated improperly and inappropriately by the force over the decades. He then went on however to suggest that despite that they were using the wrong venue to redress their grievances. Well here we are a few years later and that game continues. It continues because the courts and the judiciary want it to continue. Today's Waterloo Region Record carries a story titled "Former local police officer's allegation of bias by a judge against her called "spurious". That headline by the way also needs discussion because I believe that it is biased. ........................................................................................................ Is there anyone who has kept in touch with current events in Canada who does not know of the institutional bias against women in our military, local police forces and RCMP? Essentially any and all male dominated professions/jobs rely on the majority of males not wanting to have to compete against women for promotions, plum assignments etc. Then of course as was proven in the early 90s here in Waterloo Region, the City of Waterloo's Public Works Department was also a bastian of male supremacy and bias against females doing physical work on the landscape crews and others. I know because I worked there and I assisted a lady who was being harassed. Of course neither the male dominated union nor the management staff were any help whatsoever as their focus was on protecting the vast majority of male members of which only a few were actually the problem. ...................................................................................................................................... To date a class action suit against both the Police Services Board and the WRPS has been unsucessful. Similarly Kelly Donovan, a former police officer who went her own route seeking redress has had years of delay and denial thrown at her. This appears to be the main plan of the guilty parties. Multiply the stress, the hassle and the financial costs of redress through the legal system until the litigants go away. Meanwhile the courts in a blaze of institutional, intentional stupidity advise the litigants to go back to their hopeless and biased unions and or go to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. ........................................................................................................................... Exactly how stupid are all these institutions? Well as I said in the second paragraph is there anyone who has kept in touch with current events who hasn't been reading for many years the horrible, illegal and unethical treatment of women within the RCMP, army and navy and in numerous police forces? Our institutions have lost immeasurable respect from the public who pay the bills. How many intelligent parents would advise their daughters to seek a career in those professions? How many current female members of those professions, despite their individual experiences on the job, good or bad, could honestly recommend it to new female recruits? My personal belief has always been that it is the male as.holes at the top who never embraced or agreed with opening the doors to women who have tacitly looked the other way and given mere lip service to gender integration of these jobs. The result is that they have denigrated and disrespected the very institutions that they allegedly were trying to protect/insulate.