Yeah, no, there's no room to hedge on this. The suggestion that the legal system is broken and therefore cannot be relied upon, and people are therefore justified to act outside of it, is a horrifying thing to put out there. It's much worse for someone seeking public office. There's no excuse for that in any context.
Even if there were an excuse - which I again stress there isn't - it wouldn't be the Jian Ghomeshi verdict. If there was a failure there, it was a failure of human error. The system performed exactly as it should have done.
There's an element of truth, in that there clearly are unique challenges that make these cases harder to prosecute, and you're right to say that there's no easy solution to that. But there often is an element of truth to a dangerous, anti-democratic, rule of law eroding message. Hell, there's an element of truth to Trump's populism, too. If it were nakedly wrong in every way, it wouldn't be nearly as scary.
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