Mountie Who Alleged Unrelenting Harassment Loses Final Bid to Sue RCMP

Rick Hanson, chief of the Calgary Police Service, and Peter Merrifield, president of the Mounted Police Association of Ontario, appear at Senate national security committee to discuss harassment in the RCMP on May 27, 2013. The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear Merrifield's argument that he should be compensated for alleged harassment by superiors. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

TORONTO—An RCMP officer who accused his superiors of waging an unrelenting campaign to ruin his career lost his 12-year battle to sue the force for harassment and intentional infliction of distress when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the case.

Sgt. Peter Merrifield, who said he could be facing a legal bill in excess of $1 million, had wanted the country’s top court to weigh in after Ontario’s Court of Appeal eviscerated an earlier ruling in his favour.