"In a nutshell, he was targeted by a number of individuals and groups who had their own agendas and motivations and scapegoated him for various reasons," said Kathryn Marshall"
Marshall: “They really wanted him to espouse a certain liberal worldview they thought he should be espousing as a member of the Black community”
Marshall: “I am taking the legal position – which is the correct position – that my client was owed every single employment protection that any other employee in this province has"
"I think a lot of whistleblower protections don't have any teeth. It's all good on paper, but in practice, it's not followed. And a lot of whistleblowers, because they're not properly protected, they end up being fired," said Kathryn Marshall, Hume's lawyer. "I think the medical sector is still pretty much stuck in 2007. I don't think #MeToo has hit it. I don't think whistleblower protections have been properly explored or enforced," said Marshall
We've seen a lot in the past two years, cases or media stories about misconduct in political offices and political staffers suffering and often having to suffer in silence. And this is a case that's just going to blow the lid off of that and show that everybody deserves a safe and healthy work environment," Kimmel's lawyer, Kathryn Marshall
Cherry Smiley is seeking a declaration that the Trudeau Foundation 'breached its contractual duty of good faith and honesty,' and breached her 'confidence'