Token recourse

de Rachelle Labelle

Written as a Novel, but based on real events that occurred in Ottawa, Canada in the early 1980s. Only the names are fictitious. Token Recourse revealed how the complaint process was designed to exhaust and discredit the victim, using quasi-judicial, government controled organizations to expose the victim's evidence and witnesses, to intimidate and buy the victim's witnesses and seriously prejudice her case before it ever gets to hearing. Labelle stood up to deputy-ministers who hired and fired witnesses at will, offered to buy her off, destroyed her career, made an example of her, hoping to silence other targets of workplace sexual violence. They failed to break her; she survived and completely rebuilt her life. Several years later she wrote "What Reeks in Canada's Backyard", revealing the real names behind the characters in Token Recourse.