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This incident happened about eight years ago. However, the issue became a subject of public debate after a Canadian political commentatorjob a 2000 newspaper editorial revealed that the Canadian leader had groped a journalist during the Kokanee Summit Festival.

“I apologize at this point,” Trudeau told reporters Thursday, Ottawa time. Trudeau said he and his team contacted the anonymous journalist.

“I don’t want to assume how he feels now. I haven't contacted him, no one on my team has contacted him. “We didn’t think it would be a good solution at all,” he said.

Prime Minister Trudeau's actions towards the journalist were considered an inappropriate sexual interaction.

“I take responsibility for my side of the interaction, which I certainly didn't feel was unwelcome. But at the same time, there is a lesson that we learned, and I'm going to be frank about it, it It often happens that a man experiences an “The interaction is inappropriate, and a woman, especially in a professional context, may experience it differently. And we have to respect that and think about it,” Trudeau added.

Last month, Canadian political commentator Warren Kinsellajob 2000 editorial photo from Advancement of the Adveston Valley, a small-town British Columbia newspaper. The editorial explained that Trudeau had groped one of the newspaper's journalists during the Kokanee Summit Festival. The editorial said Trudeau apologized a day after the incident.

Trudeau was in town to support an avalanche safety fund, after losing his brother Michel in a 1998 avalanche on the Kokanee Glacier.

“What I remember about that conversation is that he came to me because it was bothering him,” said Valerie Bourne, a former editor. Advancehas Radio-Canada Newswhich was published on Friday (6/7/2018).

“He doesn't like what happened. He doesn't know how to proceed because, of course, we're talking to someone who is known to the Canadian community.”

Trudeau's father, Pierre, served as Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Pierre died in September 2000.

Around this time, Trudeau gave a speech at his father's state funeral and then entered the political world himself. He was elected to Parliament in 2008 and eventually became Prime Minister of Canada in 2015.

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