Background
Robin Blencoe was a minister of the British Columbia government for several years when Fran Yanor went public with a claim of sexual harassment and filed to the British Columbia Human Rights Council (later the British Columbia Human Rights Commission). Several months later two other women filed complaints for sexual harassment.
Due to delays to the tribunal hearings the claims were not resolved for 30 months after the first filing in 1995.
During this time Blencoe was subjected to vast media coverage that contributed to the ruin of his career, and to his and his family's social and psychological hardship.
Read more about this topic: Blencoe V. British Columbia (Human Rights Commission)
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