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11:47, 26-Jan-2018
Canadian MP Kent Hehr resigns over sexual misconduct allegations
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Kent Hehr, the federal minister of Canadian Sport and Disabilities, announced his resignation Thursday amid allegations of sexual harassment during his time in the Alberta legislature.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accepted the resignation, saying that “harassment of any kind is unacceptable.”
"As a government, we take any allegations of misconduct extremely seriously and we believe that it is important to support women who come forward with allegations and that is exactly what our government will do," Trudeau said in a statement.
The move comes after Alberta public servant, Kristin Raworth, tweeted Wednesday that she was told "to avoid being in an elevator with Kent Hehr" on her first day working at the legislature.
“He would make comments. He would make you feel unsafe,” Raworth said on Twitter.
“There is literally no woman who worked in the annex who didn’t experience this. He made verbally sexually suggestive comments to all of us, who in an elevator with me and only me said ‘you’re yummy.’”
Trudeau added that Toronto MP Kirsty Duncan will take on the portfolio in addition to her own duties as science minister.
Hehr was shuffled into the sport and disabilities portfolios last summer from veterans affairs ministry.
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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency