It Should Be Easy to Fix

Reviews

“It Should Be Easy to Fix is an important look beyond the headlines of Bonnie Robichaud’s groundbreaking court victory. A working-class mother from Northern Ontario, she is the unlikely hero of this story. Yet in these pages, she powerfully details how she remained steadfast in her belief that a safe workplace was her right. Canadian women are safer as a result of her sacrifice.” — Julie S. Lalonde, author of Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde

“The straight-goods inside story about what sexual harassment really feels like. An eleven-year struggle toward an unprecedented legal victory in the Supreme Court. Bonnie Robichaud survived to tell the tale, as the living embodiment of the solution, not the problem. To echo Justice L’Heureux-Dubé, she is my hero.” — Constance Backhouse, co-author of The Secret Oppression: Sexual Harassment of Working Women

“I had tears of joy in my eyes when I finished the book. Why? Because Robichaud had the courage to revisit the humiliation and is proud she secured rights for all women. Because union sisters who supported her activism changed labour movement culture and now our brothers stand with us. And because, with women like her as inspiration, we still fight.” — Nancy Janovicek, Alberta Views

“This is a story every student and worker should read. Although the events Robichaud recounts happened long ago, women and other feminized people encounter similarly dismissive attitudes and ongoing intransigence about workplace sexual harassment today. This riveting account gives us hope and ammunition to not just protect the gains of the past, but to also expand the fight for justice in the present.” — Susan Ferguson, author of Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction

“This landmark Supreme Court decision remains extremely important in the context of the MeToo movement and harassment suits against the RCMP and within the military. In It Should Be Easy to Fix, Bonnie Robichaud tells her story in intimate detail. The book should be required reading for all interested in ending gender-based harassment. Thank you, yet again, Ms. Robichaud, for your courage.” — Nadia Verrelli and Lori Chambers, authors of No Legal Way Out: R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress