I didn't know where to put this, but, this is a big story
http://torontosun.com/news/provincia...ctv-now-admits
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ORONTO — A key accusation which cost Patrick Brown the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party – that he plied an underage high school girl with booze – is not true, CTV News now acknowledges.
The stunning revelation concerns a woman who told CTV that when she was a student in a Barrie high school, the then federal Conservative MP took her home from a bar, gave her booze, took her to his room, and crudely asked for oral sex.
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The CTV story that landed Jan. 24 was centred around allegations of sexual misconduct by two women.
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In the first case, a woman said she was in high school and underage, and in the second alleged incident, a former PC staffer said he tried to kiss her and climbed on top of her when the two were in his bedroom.
Brown said the first incident never happened, and in the second, he was the one who got kissed, not the other way around.
Pollster John Wright tweeted Wednesday, “CTV now reports that accuser of Patrick Brown recounts key piece: she was not underage in bar and not in high school but she ‘stands by her core story’ and CTV stands by their original story. In a court of law this would shred a case. CTV credibility is on very, very thin ice.”
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Now I want to be clear, I still think that Brown needs to be out, if the second story turns out to be false, then there's a discussion that can probably happen.
But the whole context of Brown taking an underaged woman back to his room and lying her with alcohol and asking for oral sex is different now.
This is the problem with due process by the media and the public, CBC and this story now have a credibility problem, either they knew she was lying and rushed to publish, or they didn't know and didn't do their due diligence.