Mulcair says NDP women revictimized by publicized complaints
Posted Nov 6, 2014 01:39:07 PM.
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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says two of his female MPs have been victimized a second time by Justin Trudeau’s decision to publicize their complaints of inappropriate behaviour against two Liberal MPs.
Mulcair is confirming that it was two New Democrat women who complained about the conduct of Scott Andrews and Massimo Pacetti, whom Trudeau suspended Wednesday from the Liberal caucus pending an investigation.
Speaking in Whitby, Ont., Mulcair says he knew about the complaints but had not pursued them because the women wanted to keep the matter confidential.
He says the NDP respected the women’s wishes; to do otherwise would have made them victims a second time.
One of the two NDP MPs complained directly to Trudeau, who responded by suspending Pacetti and Andrews over what the Liberal leader described as allegations of “serious personal misconduct” by MPs from a rival party.
Mulcair says Trudeau gave New Democrats no prior warning that he was about to make the matter public.
