Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says he's incapable of the kind of sexual misconduct alleged against him in an anonymous Facebook post.
In a Sunday news conference on Parliament Hill, Blanchet said the claim that he tried to force himself on a woman in the washroom of a Montreal bar in 1999, when he was a manager in the music business, does a disservice to real victims of sexual assault.
"There is no victim," he said in French. "I have no idea where this comes from. I have no idea what the intention was behind these allegations." Blanchet had already denied the allegations categorically in a written statement, in which he urged anyone with a real complaint to take it to the police. He said Sunday he wanted to speak directly to his friends and constituents, as do other Bloc MPs.
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