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Title: Justin Trudeau Was Accused Of "Groping" A Reporter At A Music Festival In 2000
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2018-06-08 08:19:50
Canadian

[martin14]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/ju ... wvbZ0Dzrrp

[martin14]

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a self-described feminist who has made combatting sexual harassment and sexual assault a centerpiece of his political image, was accused of groping a young woman reporter at a music festival almost two decades ago.

The allegation was first published in an editorial in the Creston Valley Advance, a community newspaper in British Columbia, in August 2000. It has periodically resurfaced online, including in Frank magazine earlier this year. The allegation came to wider attention this week when photos of the editorial were widely shared on social media and received further prominence when Breitbart reported on it on Thursday.

Things you will never read on the CBC.

[BartSimpson]

It's eighteen years ago. Let it go.

The world changed a hell of a lot since then and so has JT or else I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.

[martin14]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's eighteen years ago. Let it go.

The world changed a hell of a lot since then and so has JT or else I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.

Remember, the lefties cry you must always believe the victims.

And time is no excuse.

[BartSimpson]

martin14 martin14:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's eighteen years ago. Let it go.

The world changed a hell of a lot since then and so has JT or else I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.

Remember, the lefties cry you must always believe the victims.

And time is no excuse.

True. Let them savage their own and please pass the

[llama66]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's eighteen years ago. Let it go.

The world changed a hell of a lot since then and so has JT or else I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.

If shit 20 years ago can destroy Kevin Spacy's career, this is admissible in the court of public opinion.

I'm being a dick I know. But I hate double standards.

[Thanos]

Kevin Spacey went after kids, hence the no-forgiveness no matter how long ago it was. Ditto with Harvey Weinstein who isn't some "mere" groper or ass-slapper but a probable rapist and extortionist.

[martin14]

llama66 llama66:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It's eighteen years ago. Let it go.

The world changed a hell of a lot since then and so has JT or else I'm sure we'd be hearing about it.

If shit 20 years ago can destroy Kevin Spacy's career, this is admissible in the court of public opinion.

I'm being a dick I know. But I hate double standards.

No double to worry about, Trudeau said it himself..

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Since becoming prime minister in 2015, Trudeau has championed women's rights and taken a zero-tolerance stance on sexual misconduct, suspending multiple members of his party from caucus after they were accused of sexual harassment.

In an interview with CBC News earlier this year, Trudeau was asked whether any women might accuse him of similar behavior.

"I don't think so," Trudeau said. "I've been very, very careful all my life to be thoughtful and to be respectful of people's space and people's headspace as well."

He also said politicians were responsible for their actions, no matter how long ago.

[Thanos]

Summer Zervos, Jessica Drake, and all the other women Trump molested over the many long years will be very thankful that they have your support as they seek justice for what he did to them.

[llama66]

Thanos Thanos:

Kevin Spacey went after kids, hence the no-forgiveness no matter how long ago it was. Ditto with Harvey Weinstein who isn't some "mere" groper or ass-slapper but a probable rapist and extortionist.

Not at all defending Spacy or Weinstein, just saying if these other people can be brought to task for transgressions 20 years ago, so can dear leader.

[Thanos]

If it can be proved that Trudeau did it then he should resign. He'll find no defender in me.

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

If it can be proved that Trudeau did it then he should resign. He'll find no defender in me.

He only said sorry when he found out she was a reporter.

[llama66]

*grope*... oh shit, you're a reporter?! Guess I should say sorry.

Pure class.

[N_Fiddledog]

Editorial from the Toronto Sun:

BONOKOSKI: Shocker! Resurfaced editorial slams Justin Trudeau as a groper

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Our feminist preacher of a prime minister, Justin Trudeau, had best bone up on the scriptures before he lectures again on how to treat women.John 8:7 might be a good place to start, especially the bit about letting he who is without sin cast the first stone.

That’s always been a good one.

There are a bunch of others, of course, that don’t need paraphrased quotations from the Bible to deliver the same sort of message. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, for example.

That one’s a honey, too.

And then there is this. Everything old is new again, an expression that certainly applies to the story now taking on a new life on social media about claims of Trudeau’s “groping” of a young female reporter 18 years ago while visiting the Kootenay-area town of Creston Valley, B.C., (Pop: 5,300).

The editor of Creston Valley Advance certainly wasn’t impressed with Trudeau’s alleged sexual manhandling of his reporter, and even wrote an editorial about the incident—headlined, “Open eyes”— which is just now heating up Twitter.

The woman who answered the phone at the Advance remembers the incident, but not the name of the reporter.

The newspaper’s publisher, Lorne Eckersley, responded to an email while on vacation, stating “the editorial is authentic” and was written by an editor who worked at the Advance before his time.

The newspaper led off its editorial with what it called Trudeau’s one-day-late “apology” to the unnamed reporter, which wasn’t an apology at all but more like some high-society toff looking down his nose at someone who was obviously a lesser being.

For this is what Trudeau reportedly said to the offended young woman: “I’m sorry. If I had known you were reporting for a national newspaper, I would never have been so forward.”


Say what? That it’s somehow okay to be inappropriate with a young reporter from a small-town weekly, but not to a reporter who might be also making a few extra bucks by stringing her story to a national newspaper?

What would be hashtag be for that? #MeTooButNotYou?

Or #MeTooDepending?

This all allegedly happened when Trudeau was visiting the B.C. resort town and attending a local festival in August, 2000. But he was no kid at the time.

He was 29.

As the editorial rightly asked all those 18 years ago, “shouldn’t the son of a former prime minister be aware of the rights and wrongs that go along with public socializing?

“Didn’t he learn through his vast experiences in public life, that groping a strange young woman isn’t in the handbook of proper etiquette regardless of who she is, what her business is, or where they are.”

The prime minster, of course, would rather have attention on the G7 summit currently underway north of Quebec City.

But his office dodged queries about the specifics of the alleged incident.

“As the PM has said before, be has always been very careful to treat everyone with respect,” wrote Trudeau press secretary Matt Pascuzzo.

“His first experiences with activism were on the issue of sexual assault at McGill University, and he knows the importance of being thoughtful and respectful.

“He remembers being in Creston for the Avalanche Foundation,” said Pascuzzo, “But he doesn’t think he had any negative interactions there.”

So, there it is then, the same old he-said, she-said joust.

And it all allegedly happened too long ago, of course, to have cell phones in everyone’s pocket with picture-taking abilities, and too long ago to matter for someone who had yet declared he was a feminist seeking to become PM.

So, move on folks, and forget what you just read.

http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnist ... s-a-groper