Thank you for this great article. I completely agree with all you have said. I am a Canadian citizen & resident of Ontario. I am a victim office altering crimes which have left me permanently disabled, & suffering a fate worse than death for the past 5.5 years. I first contacted the police in 2016 via crime stoppers out of concern for my safety. I finally worked up the courage to call the police to file a report in person. The crimes committed against me that have destroyed my life include admission of a noxious substance (without my informed consent) as well as bodily harm caused by criminal negligence. The police told me they had never heard of the illegal drug & thus did not have the resources to investigate, in spite of my being permanently disabled. Ultimately I had no choice but to file a civil complaint at the end of 2017 when I could no longer afford medical therapies to help mitigate my suffering, hadn’t been able to work in almost 2 years & would likely never be able to work again, not to mention the pain & suffering. In spite of one of the defendants getting caught committing significant perjury under oath & substantial evidence, my lawyers dropped my claim, seemingly deciding that the time consuming unethical tactics of the defendants aggressive lawyers was not worth their time & the defendants would never settle, & judgements are hard to enforce. This has left me forced to try to fight for my life while severely disabled against all odds. I’m going to try to settle with the defendants one last time, as I am going to the media & am posting all evidence for the shocking story of what they did to me online along with a plea to the public to sign my petition to have the police finally do their job, & for a boycott of the defendants multimillion dollar company, as well as advertise a coming documentary on my story. There is a chance the defendants might settle as this would be far more damaging for them than paying me a settlement. It remains to be seen.

I am desperate to settle as I am so tortured on a daily basis by the mental & physical damage done to me I have almost ended my life on many occasions. I desperately need treatments. Additionally, I cannot even afford basic survival expenses and the walls are closing in.

Having said this, it weighs on me heavily that these evil people may get away with what they did without criminal Justice which I should have had the chance to get first & foremost. There were other victims after me.

I only recently discovered it is still within my right to contact police & report the crime, I was under the impression after they said no that was it.

If I am able to settle, if I sign an NDA am I still allowed to report the crime to the police? Are they legally allowed to include a provision in their settlement agreement that I am barred from reporting their crimes, or is that not permissible by law?

I feel I will go insane if I do not again try to do my civic duty to ensure these people don’t destroy or even end any more innocent lives (I almost died in the defendants care after he did what he did to me, then he refused me medical treatment for 3 days & I ended up hours from death on life support).

In short, are clauses in NDAs that require people to not report the crimes of the defendants in their civil claims legally valid in Canada?

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my comment / question.