Janet Merlo’s tell all No One to Tell reveals a tragic and hopeless story of an aspiring young woman with the hopes of being a part of Canada’s infamous public protector, the RCMP. Instead, she was continuously tested and defeated in her 20 years of service. From tales of beratement and sexual harassment to overall inequality and disrespect plagued years of her career bogging down her entire life with stress, anxiety and a plethora of other issues. The question then becomes how a member of the RCMP came to be treated this way. The possibility that the social construction of the policing profession as a masculine and authoritarian line of work is causing backlash against the rising power of equality between men and women becomes a valid
