A Victoria law firm is asking any women or members of the LGBTQ community who were sexually assaulted, harassed, or discriminated upon while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces to add their names to a class action lawsuit.
Natalie Foley is a partner at a Victoria law office specializing in personal injury.
Foley says their lead plaintiff is former navy ordinary seaman Nicola Peffers.
"This abuse came at the hands of peers and supervisors -- people she should have been able to trust; people whose orders she was trained not to question and people whose orders she had a duty to follow."
The law firm says they expect hundreds of others to join their proposed class action lawsuit.