Why would a woman offer herself up to a group of men she doesn’t know if she wasn’t actually “into it”? I drove from Ottawa to London three times during the now-infamous “hockey players trial” to find the answer to this question.

I observed E.M. (as the complainant is known) testify for two days under cross-examination. I saw the videos where she looks straight into hockey player Michael McLeod’s camera and says she’s good with it all. I heard Crown and defence counsels’ full closing submissions.

The episode at the Delta Armouries on the night of June 18, 2018 involved strapping, fully-clothed, intoxicated young men in a hotel room in the middle of the night with a small, naked, intoxicated young woman. You need only imagine your own daughter or granddaughter in that room to appreciate

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