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Canada politician Patrick Brown resigns amid sexual allegations
Source: BBC News
By Robin Levinson-King & Jessica Murphy
BBC News, Toronto
Both women say Mr Brown plied them with alcohol when they were below the legal drinking age. A noted teetotaller, he was stone-cold sober, they say.
Both women say it happened in his private home. The never-married politician was a federal MP at the time.
And both women say he pressured them or tried to pressure them into sexual activity.
One says he picked her up at a bar more than a decade ago, and brought her back to his house with the promise of booze. When they were alone, he exposed himself and asked for oral sex.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42797645
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However, he represents Canada's Conservative Progressive Party, overall more centrist right and not exactly comparable to today's far-right GOP.
