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That was just the most significant problem with Mr. Morice’s credibility: He also has a long criminal record, mostly for offences of dishonesty, didn’t bother even to show up for court on Monday, and once even left a voicemail for Mr. Furlong’s lawyer, threatening that “there’s some natives that want to lay a beating” on Mr. Furlong.

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Late last year, Ms. Abraham dropped her suit, by consent and without explanation, after her lawyer, Jason Gratl, withdrew (he once represented the three claimants but in the end withdrew from all the suits), while Ms. West’s case was tossed in February by Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper, who concluded that on the evidence, Ms. West “did not ever attend Immaculata.”

Yet to the bitter end, the three accusers were still being protected by not all, but surely some, of the press, their names not used or only sparingly. No one dared suggest they had any misconduct for which to answer.

In any case that limited publicity, such as it was, is the only sanction they will ever face.

As Mr. Furlong said Tuesday in a prepared statement, “It is extraordinary and unacceptable that anyone can make ruinous, toxic allegations against a citizen, put them on the public record via the courts and then abandon them with impunity, seemingly without consequences and leaving untold damage and pain behind.

“How can this be acceptable? More importantly, how did it even happen?”

How can this be acceptable? More importantly, how did it even happen?

Increasingly, Canadian institutions are showing themselves as unable or unwilling to recognize that Mr. Furlong’s situation is far from unique, let alone do anything about it.