Radio-Canada will defend itself when the time comes before the courts. This is the state company’s response to the lawsuit brought against it by the former newscaster of Téléjournal weekend, Pascale Nadeau.
Posted at 3:31 p.m.
In an email sent to The PressMarc Pichette, Radio-Canada’s Senior Director, Promotion and Public Relations, indicates that management has “taken good note of the lawsuit filed with the Superior Court, which is in addition to the other proceedings already undertaken by Ms. Nadeau”.
It is therefore through the courts that Radio-Canada intends to settle the dispute between it and Pascale Nadeau. According to the lawsuit filed in the Superior Court, Ms.me Nadeau is first claiming the sum of $250,000 from the public broadcaster in compensation for the moral damages caused, according to her, by the “abusive, illegal and faulty” conduct of the state-owned company in connection with her retirement in August 2021. .
She is also claiming punitive damages in the amount of $100,000 for “unlawful and intentional attacks on her fundamental rights to safeguard her dignity, honor and reputation”.
In an interview granted in August 2021 to our colleague Richard Therrien, from Sun, Pascale Nadeau revealed what she considered to be the real reasons for her departure. She claimed in particular to have been suspended without pay for a period of one month in February 2021, after a complaint from an employee for comments she allegedly made on the set of Téléjournal. It was a question here of an anonymous denunciation with regard to the head of antenna, made by a third person on behalf of other people.
Radio-Canada news director Luce Julien has always denied that the retirement was constructive dismissal, as Ms.me Nadeau in the interview at Sun.