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As the lawyers like to say, I hold no particular brief for Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

But I was nonetheless delighted by the result of an independent investigation into complaints that May was a workplace harasser because it is such a rare victory for adulthood.

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An executive summary of the report basically says that what May’s accusers suffered was nothing more than the rough justice of the ordinary office.

Boss doesn’t much like you? Supervisor dumps on your work? Colleague is mean? People exclude you at coffee? Superior swears and is gruff?

Suck it up, buttercup, is the message here — this is what happens in the real world and it doesn’t count as workplace harassment — and well overdue it is.

The allegations — that May created a toxic work environment by yelling at staff or publicly putting them down — were first made, in the modern manner, on the pages of the Toronto Star and The Hill Times last January.