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Hundreds of current and former female Mounties have come forward from across Canada to join a class-action lawsuit alleging harassment within the ranks of the RCMP.

Lawyers expected dozens of women to contact them with allegations after Janet Merlo, a 19-year veteran of the force, filed suit in March but attorney Jason Murray said Monday that more than 200 people have called his firm in Vancouver.

“It’s a significant number. It says to us there’s a significant problem that people feel has happened within the RCMP with respect to how women are treated,” Murray said in an interview.

And more people are expected to join the class action.

“We’re still hearing from women who either are currently members of the RCMP or who have retired or left the force in other ways,” Murray said. “On a week-to-week basis we’re hearing from people coming forward who have complaints about how they feel they were treated when they were with the RCMP.”

But last fall, instead of preparing their defence, the governments filed a motion to strike the case.

“We believe we have a strong legal argument to defeat this motion,” said Yutaka Dirks of the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, a legal aid clinic representing the applicants.

Governments are increasingly using procedural motions like this to delay or prevent Charter cases by marginalized groups from moving forward, making this case that much more important, he added.

Ottawa has ignored several United Nations reports urging the government to address homelessness and inadequate housing. An NDP private member’s bill directing Ottawa to develop a national housing strategy with measurable goals and timetables has gone nowhere.

Chile has fined Canadian gold mine giant Barrick $16.4 million, the highest environmental fine in the country’s history, saying agency inspectors found the company hadn’t told the full truth when it reported failures.

When you critique the media and you say, look, here is what Anthony Lewis or somebody else is writing, they get very angry. They say, quite correctly, “nobody ever tells me what to write. I write anything I like. All this business about pressures and constraints is nonsense because I’m never under any pressure.” Which is completely true, but the point is that they wouldn’t be there unless they had already demonstrated that nobody has to tell them what to write because they are going say the right thing. If they had started off at the Metro desk, or something, and had pursued the wrong kind of stories, they never would have made it to the positions where they can now say anything they like. The same is mostly true of university faculty in the more ideological disciplines. They have been through the socialization system.