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The letter — anonymous, of course — made it all sound quite egregious.

The note, dated last month, was positively bristling with injury.

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The writer said that a male supervisor in the office, a lawyer by training, had sent “a sexually explicit message about a female colleague’s lingerie” and had further encouraged “all recipients of the email to approach the female colleague about it.”

It was an example, the writer said, of “sexual harassment of each and every female employee” at the professional organization. And worse, the organization “has not taken action. Those victimized … have not received an acknowledgement, an apology or an offer of counselling for the abuse.”

Why, said the writer, the man “must be sanctioned.” He must be both fired and disciplined by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Attached to the letter was the actual offending email.

Alas and alack, there was nothing offensive about it.