Indigenous employees were regularly sidelined by a “toxic” working environment in the office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett but their complaints fell on deaf ears, several former staffers have told CBC News.
At least one verbal complaint about the workplace environment was brought to the minister herself, while a separate verbal complaint went to her chief of staff, Sarah Welch, said former staff members. Three verbal complaints also went to officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, but they resulted in no action, according to the former staffers.
“Bennett — ultimately, the buck stops there — didn’t want to hear about it,” said one former ministerial staffer.
Not news that Liberals are toxic.
