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A Hill staffer is suing the NDP member of Parliament she worked for, and claims the party tried to silence her complaints about harassment.

Fabiola Ferro claims that NDP MP Sylvain Chicoine ignored her complaints that she was being undermined by a colleague in his office. She also says the party offered her another job if she dropped her complaint.

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In a statement of claim filed in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, Ferro seeks $194,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal and moral suffering, in addition to court costs. The statement of claim was sent to the news media Friday by Ferro’s lawyer, Nigel McKechnie.

Her allegations have not been proven in court.

Chicoine, the MP for Châteauguay–Saint-Constant, near Montreal, rejected her assertions.

“As Mrs. Ferro’s employer, I received her complaint of harassment by another employee,” he said in a written statement. “I took these allegations seriously because I believe that harassment has no place in a healthy work environment.