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Public Servant's widow speaks

clarissa-pservant300.jpgAn Ottawa widow is speaking out about her husband's suicide.
Eric - whose last name we've agreed not to reveal - was a lawyer at Justice Canada.
His wife describes him as a star employee.
But he had received an 'affected notice' as part of on-going public service layoffs.
That meant he had to compete to try to keep his job. 
 And at the same time, he was also struggling with a mental illness.
This past July, Eric took his own life.
His wife Clarissa, whose last name we're also withholding, told his story to our colleagues at Radio-Canada. We hear from her and then we follow up with  Dr. Simon Hatcher. He's a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, and at the Royal.

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