The CBC knew about Trudeau's groping allegations (the Kokanee Handshake) but decided to stay quiet!
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Summary
Justin Trudeau doesn't remember what happened at the Kokanee music festival in the early 2000s, but that doesn't stop the media from covering it. And the media is actually running interference for the Prime Minister, Andrew Lawton argues.
Transcript
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It's official. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no idea that anything bad happened when
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he was at that Kokanee Music Festival in Creston, British Columbia almost two decades ago,
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or the Kokanee Handshakers we'll call it, when Justin Trudeau allegedly groped a reporter
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because by his own admission he didn't know she was writing for a national newspaper.
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But Justin Trudeau doesn't remember the Kokanee Handshake. He doesn't remember doing anything
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other than just having a great old time celebrating some Canadian music at that event.
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Okay, I don't think that the allegations against Justin Trudeau are the worst allegations in the world.
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In fact without details we don't know exactly what happened. Just that a reporter felt very
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uncomfortable by the advances that Justin Trudeau before entering politics made.
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But we are in a new age right now and in fact the Liberal Party led by Justin Trudeau has stoked
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the very concerns that are now being ignored by the Prime Minister's office. That it's about how a victim
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or purported victim feels. And for Justin Trudeau the guy that posits himself as the king of Canadian
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feminists you know because it's 2015 or 2019 or whatever the heck it is now. The guy who is really
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sinking because of the hypocrisy of this double standard more than anything else. But there's a
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bigger problem right now which is that the media is actually running interference for Justin Trudeau.
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We found out this week in a very quiet line in the middle of a CBC story that CBC was made aware of
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the allegations earlier this year, actually interviewed the woman in the story who has not
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been named publicly because she's moved on with her life, and CBC decided to sit on the story.
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So the state broadcaster which gets its money from the federal government, from Justin Trudeau's
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Liberal government and their budgets, decided that this was not newsworthy. Only now that everyone's talking
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about it did CBC decide it was time to publish the information that it had. But now all of a sudden
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we have Justin Trudeau deciding which allegations of misconduct matter, namely the ones that don't
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matter or the ones that involve him. And we've got the state broadcaster in Canada agreeing with that
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assertion that when the Prime Minister of Canada is the victim of an accusation that he would spare no
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time and effort in levelling against members of other parties. It's not newsworthy. Canadians are
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going to be the judges of whether or not this allegation is true or not, or whether or not the
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allegation itself is damning. But it's not CBC's job to tell Canadians or to not tell Canadians based on
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what they feel about it. If it was a story then it's a story now and vice versa. For the True North Initiative,