Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Thursday he 91裸聊视频渄id not act inappropriately91裸聊视频� towards a female reporter at a B.C. music festival 18 years ago 91裸聊视频� but he also acknowledged that the woman he91裸聊视频檚 been accused of groping may have an entirely different perspective.
Trudeau said he91裸聊视频檚 been reflecting on the incident ever since an editorial from the Creston Valley Advance newspaper surfaced, describing how he 91裸聊视频� 28 years old and a world away from a career in federal politics 91裸聊视频� apologized for inappropriate conduct. The Advance is owned by Black Press Media.
91裸聊视频淭his is a situation that has been very much on my mind over the past few weeks,91裸聊视频� Trudeau said when asked about the incident during a news conference in Toronto.
91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檝e been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago and again I feel 91裸聊视频� I am confident 91裸聊视频� that I did not act inappropriately. But part of this awakening that we91裸聊视频檙e having as a society, a long awaited realization, is that it91裸聊视频檚 not just one side of the story that matters.91裸聊视频�
The event in question was the Kokanee Summit festival in August 2000, which Trudeau attended to accept a donation to the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign. The Trudeau family launched the campaign after his youngest brother, Michel, died in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in 1998.
The unsigned editorial says Trudeau 91裸聊视频渋nappropriately handled91裸聊视频� a reporter there to cover the event, and apologized to her by saying, 91裸聊视频滻f I had known you were reporting for a national paper, I never would have been so forward.91裸聊视频�
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Trudeau91裸聊视频檚 self-professed stance as a feminist prime minister with a low tolerance for inappropriate behaviour has critics 91裸聊视频� livid that he has so far essentially shrugged off the claim 91裸聊视频� demanding an independent investigation.
Conservative MPs have been raging about it on Twitter, accusing their female Liberal counterparts of being anti-feminist and weak for failing to speak out against the alleged behaviour.
91裸聊视频淭he weakness is specific to you, because you virtue signal and refuse to set your boss to his own standard for allegations of sexual harassment,91裸聊视频� Calgary MP Michelle Rempel tweeted at Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef.
91裸聊视频淭here are so many others of all genders who are stronger than you.91裸聊视频�
Trudeau did not directly address why he hasn91裸聊视频檛 ordered an independent investigation, as he did earlier this year when allegations of misconduct and harassment were made against then-cabinet minister Kent Hehr.
Trudeau said he apologized at the time because the woman felt something wrong had happened 91裸聊视频� even if he felt otherwise.
91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 responsible for my side of the interaction, which certainly, as I said, I don91裸聊视频檛 think was in any way untoward,91裸聊视频� he said.
91裸聊视频淏ut at the same time this lesson that we are learning, and I91裸聊视频檒l be blunt about it, often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently. We have to respect that and reflect on that.91裸聊视频�
Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press
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