#MeToo movement belongs to the victims, not the media

#MeToo—as it has swept aside the rich and the powerful and famous, in Hollywood, Washington, the media elite—is now alighting in Ottawa. It’s overdue. It’s wonderful. It’s necessary.

A protester at the Women's March on Parliament Hill, pictured Jan. 20, 2018. Warren Kinsella says the story of #MeToo doesn’t belong to him, or the media, or the politicians. It belongs to the ones who were the victims. It belongs to the ones who say: 'Me, too.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

February 5, 2018

TORONTO—Affidavits? A week ago in this space, I wrote the following. “It is up to the victims who swore those affidavits to step forward and tell their story. Not me or those like me. It will take courage—telling truth to the powerful always takes courage—but now, I’d say, is the tim...

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