“Male feminist Justin Trudeau is just as handsy as Bill Clinton was”
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Summary
Justin Trudeau groped a reporter in the town of Creston, British Columbia in 2000. He apologized when he realized that she wasn t just a small town reporter, but also worked for the National Post and the Vancouver Sun. His excuse was that he didn t know that she was important.
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Tonight, turns out, male feminist Justin Trudeau is just as handsy as Bill Clinton was.
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It's July 6th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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In the year 2000, when Justin Trudeau was a grown man of 28 years,
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he groped a female reporter who was trying to interview him when he was in the town of Creston, British Columbia.
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He groped her. To use her words, he handled her.
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And he apologized only when he realized that she wasn't just a small-town reporter.
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She also worked for big newspapers like the National Post.
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His excuse, his explanation was that, well, he didn't know that she was important.
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Had he known that she was someone important, or more accurately,
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someone who could embarrass him by exposing him as a sexual predator,
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he wouldn't have groped her. He'd have groped someone else, someone less powerful.
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Now, we know about this because the Creston Advance newspaper wrote about it,
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I'm sorry if I had known you were reporting for a national paper.
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Those were the words that were spoken to an advance reporter by Justin Trudeau,
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son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, August 4th.
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Trudeau, who was in Creston to celebrate the Kokanee Summit Festival,
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put on by the Columbia Brewery, apologized a day late
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for inappropriately handling the reporter while she was on assignment,
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not only for the advance, but also for the National Post and Vancouver Sun.
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If I had known you were reporting for a national paper.
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It's not a rare incident to have a young reporter,
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especially a female who was working for a small community newspaper,
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be considered an underling to their more predominant associates
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But shouldn't the son of a former Prime Minister be aware of the rights and wrongs
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Didn't he learn through his vast experiences in public life
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that groping a strange young woman isn't in the handbook of proper etiquette,
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regardless of who she is, what her business is, or where they are?
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What makes the fact that she was working for the Post of any relevance?
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Big stories break first in community papers, after all.
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but one thing could have been learned from the experience,
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So that was the editorial written 18 years ago.
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which for many people is when they're getting serious about life,
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starting a family, getting their career going, whatever.
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Frat boys are usually in college, so they're usually aged 18, 19, 20.
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There's a picture of him at that Kokanee Festival.
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He was a frat boy well into his 30s, wouldn't you say?
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and I think that's what kids these days call a douche.
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Just a party bro, super gross, 10 years too old to be doing it.
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I'm not sure if you can see it, but look at that shirt he's wearing.
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It's like a dragon shirt, which sort of makes me laugh.
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I mean, famous last name, multi-million dollar trust fund, pretty face.
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even down to his million dollar supercar inherited by his father.
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And look at him just sitting on there like a douche.
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and even after he was elected as an MP, he continued to party.
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He admits he continued to smoke marijuana even after being elected.
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His flights, he's taken, what, 56 or 57 foreign trips?
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He hates work, and when he travels, he's often drunk.
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That's an observation based on the thousands of dollars of liquor
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And sometimes he just doesn't stop drinking, even into meetings.
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Look at how wobbly he is here, meeting with David Axelrod
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Yeah, but the media love him, so they ignore it.
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Except this Creston groping incident, it's pretty specific.
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He didn't just say suggestive words to the young reporter.
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And the fact that he felt compelled to apologize,
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that not only suggests the gravity of the situation,
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That's the kind of thing that would sink another politician,
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In fact, Trudeau himself has fired a number of liberal MPs
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You just have to accept the word of the accused.
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Obviously, as I've said many times throughout this week,
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it's really important to believe and support any woman who comes forward with allegations
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And that's exactly what my government and myself, we do.
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I don't need to remind anyone of the positions I've taken from the very beginning of my leadership
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I am unequivocal in my support for women who step forward with allegations of this nature.
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valid enough to acknowledge and semi-apologize,
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I mean, at first, Trudeau thought he could just slough this off as usual.
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His aide, Matt Pescuso, made this statement a month ago,
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he has always been very careful to treat everyone with respect.
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His first experiences with activism were on the issue of sexual assault at McGill,
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and he knows the importance of being thoughtful and respectful.
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He remembers being in Creston for the Avalanche Foundation,
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but doesn't think he had any negative interactions there, unquote.
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That last part really sounds like Bill Clinton wrote it, doesn't it?
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I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
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All the corporate media looking for handouts didn't touch it.
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That was enough to shut up most Canadian reporters,
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They don't answer to Gerald Butts and Justin Trudeau.
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Not just conservative media like Fox News or the UK's Daily Mail,
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I mean, it's not just that Trudeau is a groper in the age of Me Too.
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I mean, he went to the World Economic Forum in Davos,
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and instead of talking about how he was going to deal with NAFTA
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But you need to take as much effort to talk to your sons,
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while Ralph Goodale, the only grown-up in the party,
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I don't remember any negative interactions that day at all.
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And yesterday, Trudeau was asked about it again.
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when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct
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There are serious allegations against you right now.
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Trudeau has had investigations of his other staff and MPs,
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It's a issue that I have been deeply engaged with,
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but all my life since my early 20s in university,
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active on issues around sexual assault and behaviors.
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I mean, I'm sure he gives little video clips about it,
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has actually done anything on the file in his life?
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I'm not talking about foolish little things like this.
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I really think that's what Trudeau is thinking about
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The woman in question said she was handled by Trudeau,
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as in touched, groped, manhandled, people handled,