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The Manitoba NDP’s ham-fisted decision to punish, shun and sideline an associate of Peter Nygard’s legal team is unfortunate and disappointing. Even sexual predators like Peter Nygard deserve legal representation. That’s a foundational principle of Canada’s legal system.
Yet Nygard’s lawyer, Gerri Wiebe, has been besmirched for representing Nygard. Now Wiebe’s colleague, lawyer and Fort Garry MLA, Mark Wasyliw, has been exiled from the NDP caucus. When I was a teen in the late 1970s, my legal secretary mother always gave the employment ads for secretarial help at fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s business offices in Winnipeg a hard pass.
“Why not apply?” I demanded. “That Nygard is bad news,” she replied. Since Mum was the soul of discretion, she wouldn’t expand on the why.
Her frowning expression told me everything I needed to know: give that man a wide berth. Back in the Dark Era of the 1970s, women relied on an underground network of whispered warnings to stay safe at work. Peter Nygard’s egregious “zipper problem” was the worst kept secret in Winnipeg.
No one acted on this relevant information for decades. Now that Peter Nygard ha.
