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CBC president blasts Sun News Network for claims of sexual harassment

OTTAWA – CBC president Hubert Lacroix blasted Sun News Network and Quebecor Inc. today for "?deliberately misleading Canadians"? with allegations that the CBC is a ?"hotbed of sexual harassment."? During an appearance before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women in Ottawa, Lacroix said that recent stories in The Sun and the Journal de Montreal, both Quebecor newspapers, which linked the public broadcaster to revelations of sexual harassment at the RCMP, and more recently at the BBC, were untrue. He accused Sun News host Brian Lilley of shoddy reporting when Lilley reportedly used data obtained from the CBC through...