Pascale Nadeau is now suing Radio-Canada for $350,000 over “false and defamatory statements” by her former employer, nearly a year after her controversial departure.
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“Radio-Canada willfully undermined Ms. Nadeau’s dignity, integrity, honor and reputation by broadcasting false and defamatory statements about her solely to protect her reputation,” we read in the filing, filed Monday at the Supreme Court was filed.
In a copy of the court document obtained by the Journal, the former news anchor first demands that the state-owned company pay him $250,000 for “his abusive, unlawful and culpable conduct.”
Ms. Nadeau is also demanding that Radio-Canada be ordered to pay her $100,000 in damages for violating her dignity, honor and reputation.
“Unleashed” on her
Me Caroline Biron, one of the two attorneys at Woods’ firm representing Pascale Nadeau, told the Journal Radio-Canada certainly anticipates the lawsuit.
“You cannot tarnish the reputation of employees who have been as loyal and faithful as you have been over the years. […] Radio-Canada was really let loose on Ms. Nadeau after the publication of their version of the facts about her resignation in the daily newspaper Le Soleil,” notes the plaintiff’s lawyer.
More details to come.