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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
I'll agree with you that the first incident is a bit of a stretch. She agreed to come back to his house and accepted a tour; though it was pretty crass of him to whip his dick out as soon they got to the bedroom. The second incident though, is quite rapey.. he got her extremely drunk, lured her into his bedroom with a friend who subsequently left and then literally climbed on to her to dry-hump even though she clearly didn't want it.
What makes this completely intolerable though, as geotag said, is his position of authority. He was more than willing to use his positions as Barrie city councillor and later Member of Parliament to pressure women into sexual favours.. that's not the kind of person who is in any way worthy to govern Ontario in Her Majesty's name.
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I was going by a couple articles I read, and I didn't see that in the second case he'd offered to take her to India and had offered her other things as her boss. I agree that's crossing a line.
Though still, was that a one-off, or was there a pattern there? If there are more cases of him potentially abusing his authority, if he created a toxic atmosphere for many or most of the women working around him, then sure, there's a problem. But if it's just the one case, it seems more likely that he actually liked her, that this was just a ham-fisted attempt at seduction and/or starting up a relationship.
I think the emperor is starting to lose his clothes here. Things are being portrayed as sinister when they really aren't. I mean, I'm the last person who wants a Tory government in Ontario (or Canada), but this stinks to high heaven.
The Tory braying about Wynne/Liberal "corruption" vis-a-vis the gas plants etc. is baseless nonsense, but with the election coming up this summer, this really does look and smell like a case of Liberal perfidy.