October 5, 2000 - Robin Blencoe - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Supreme Court allows B.C. cabinet minister to be fired for sexual harassment. The British Columbia government received two complaints of sexual harassment against cabinet minister Robin Blencoe: one from an employee working in the minister’s office and the other from a representative of a sports organization receiving funding from the minister’s office. In March 1995 Premier Michael Harcourt released Blencoe from his cabinet portfolio. But were those allegations proper grounds for firing? Blencoe felt not, and took the case to court. After winding its way through procedural delays and tribunal processes, the Blencoe case made it to the Supreme Court of Canada as Blencoe tried to say his rights were violated. On October 5, 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that Blencoe’s rights had not been violated. However judges were unimpressed by a 30 month delay in the middle of this drawn-out process and forced the B.C. Human Rights Commission to pay the case’s costs. The court referred the case back to the tribunal level and in the end, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal found Robin Blencoe liable for sexual harassment.

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