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By Rex Wockner International News Report Royal Canadian Mounted Police Asked about Sexuality
"This is a question that is black and white in the security interview," admitted RCMP Staff Sgt. Normand Nadeau. "It's there. It is common knowledge to everybody that has gone through the interview. This is a departmental policy. "Our members have to deal with top-secret files on a regular basis, and are made aware of privileged information," Nadeau told the newspaper. "We want to make sure there is no compromise [due to blackmail]." Legal experts told the Citizen the question violates the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits such inquiries during job interviews. It also may contravene the privacy and freedom-of-expression guarantees of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, lawyers said. "Certainly an individual's sexual orientation should not be of any import to an employer one way or another," said Canadian Human Rights Commission spokeswoman Catherine Barratt. More Canadian Gays Catching HIV
While many people taking anti-HIV drugs see a major reduction in blood HIV levels, the virus often remains present in semen and preseminal fluid at levels sufficient for transmission. Anti-HIV drugs do significantly delay progression to AIDS in many individuals, but the drugs have a host of unpleasant and sometimes dangerous side effects. |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police recruits are asked if
they are gay, the Ottawa Citizen revealed December 3.
