#MeToo hits Ottawa: MP Kent Hehr resigns from Trudeau cabinet after sexual misconduct allegation - News Summed Up

#MeToo hits Ottawa: MP Kent Hehr resigns from Trudeau cabinet after sexual misconduct allegation


OTTAWA — Kent Hehr resigned Thursday as federal minister of sport and disabilities after an allegation of sexual misconduct, but there was a palpable fear in Ottawa that a flood of accusations against other politicians could follow. “My first day working at the Alberta legislature I was told to avoid being in an elevator with Kent Hehr,” Raworth wrote. My first day working at the Alberta legislature I was told to avoid being in a elevator with Kent Hehr. “We work in a culture where people have been expecting it to hit the Hill,” one Parliament Hill staffer told the Post. “My weeks-ago prediction that the #MeToo movement would hit political Canada?” he wrote.


Source: National Post January 25, 2018 21:53 UTC



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