Former reporter wishes her 1980s sexual harassment story was irrelevant today
OTTAWA — Kathryn Young remembers the anger growing within as she listened to their laughter.
On the floor of the House of Commons, they were snickering and chortling as a New Democrat MP mentioned a newspaper story about how the press secretary to the prime minister had told a female reporter she would get her interview once she agreed to a date.
The politicians were shaking with laughter and, she realized, so were many of the reporters seated with her in the press gallery overlooking the scene.
She went home and told her husband something she had never shared with him before.