STORY 1

When I resigned from my employment after facing retaliation for reporting internal abuses of power, I refused to sign an NDA. At the time I resigned, there was an ongoing class action lawsuit. I had to agree not to join the $167M class action in order to maintain my voice. I knew that the way I was treated was wrong, and being able to speak about my experience allowed me to address lawmakers and affect positive changes to provincial laws. Now my former employer is pursuing legal action for allegedly breaching an NDA that does not exist. NDAs are so common in Canada, most people assume I signed one. They want me to stop telling the public what they did, and they have spent over $500k of the public’s money, so far, to try to achieve my silence.