It seems like the easy way to get rid of a politician or anyone else who you do not like.
Personally, I do not like Patrick Brown, but this kind of allegation is shameful. I hope that if these accusations are proven false, the individuals so far unnamed (ain't that a kicker?) will be sued into the stone age.
Moving forward, the need for a new or interim leader just increased the PC's chances of election. A leader can be chosen who is more attractive to PCs and others in Ontario.
Only time will tell. For PCs, this has happened early enough that any fallout will be old news by the time the election rolls around
Patrick Brown’s downfall an affront to fairness
Patrick Brown is a man ruined, on the word of two anonymous complainants whose allegations have been accepted as facts, writes Rosie DiManno.
It’s not a magnifying glass. It’s an ice pick.
The sweeping arc and thrust of sexual misconduct allegations, untested and unchallenged. Uncharged, need one add. Which apparently doesn’t matter a fig in these caustic accusatory times.
Throw in an “alleged” here and there — the media’s doing, not the politicians who rushed to the podium on Thursday — and, hey, all fine. Let’s move on to the instant repudiation, the character evisceration, the career annihilation.
Another brick in the wall for women’s empowerment? Another brick through the window of basic fairness, I’d say, and the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Patrick Brown isn’t Harvey Weinstein or Louis C.K. Shockwaves emanating from Queen’s Park strongly suggest an entire community that had not heard even whispers about inappropriate sexual behaviour in the now ex-leader of the provincial Conservative party’s past. The slag came out of nowhere, about a man who’s been in the public eye for nearly two decades.
To be perfectly hard-boiled about this: where is the sexual misconduct, exactly?
Read more:
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...k-brown-denies-allegations-of-misconduct.html
and here.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pat...-women-resigns-as-ontario-pc-leader-1.3774686
Personally, I do not like Patrick Brown, but this kind of allegation is shameful. I hope that if these accusations are proven false, the individuals so far unnamed (ain't that a kicker?) will be sued into the stone age.
Moving forward, the need for a new or interim leader just increased the PC's chances of election. A leader can be chosen who is more attractive to PCs and others in Ontario.
Only time will tell. For PCs, this has happened early enough that any fallout will be old news by the time the election rolls around
Patrick Brown’s downfall an affront to fairness
Patrick Brown is a man ruined, on the word of two anonymous complainants whose allegations have been accepted as facts, writes Rosie DiManno.
It’s not a magnifying glass. It’s an ice pick.
The sweeping arc and thrust of sexual misconduct allegations, untested and unchallenged. Uncharged, need one add. Which apparently doesn’t matter a fig in these caustic accusatory times.
Throw in an “alleged” here and there — the media’s doing, not the politicians who rushed to the podium on Thursday — and, hey, all fine. Let’s move on to the instant repudiation, the character evisceration, the career annihilation.
Another brick in the wall for women’s empowerment? Another brick through the window of basic fairness, I’d say, and the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Patrick Brown isn’t Harvey Weinstein or Louis C.K. Shockwaves emanating from Queen’s Park strongly suggest an entire community that had not heard even whispers about inappropriate sexual behaviour in the now ex-leader of the provincial Conservative party’s past. The slag came out of nowhere, about a man who’s been in the public eye for nearly two decades.
To be perfectly hard-boiled about this: where is the sexual misconduct, exactly?
Read more:
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...k-brown-denies-allegations-of-misconduct.html
and here.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pat...-women-resigns-as-ontario-pc-leader-1.3774686
