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The Federal Court of Canada judge notorious for asking a teenage sexual-assault complainant why she couldn’t just keep her knees together or “skew” her pelvis to foil her alleged attacker should be removed from the bench.

The unanimous recommendation to dump Judge Robin Camp came Wednesday from a five-member inquiry committee of the Canadian Judicial Council after a week of hearings in Calgary in September.

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The 64-year-old Camp made headlines not for his conduct on the Federal Court, but for his mishandling of a 2014 sexual-assault trial in the Alberta Provincial Court about a year before his elevation to the higher court.

He faced six main allegations, each with multiple parts and all related to remarks he made during the course of the trial — some to the young complainant, some to the Crown attorney who tried valiantly to remind Camp of the state of the law, and some to the accused, Alexander Scott Wagar, whom Camp acquitted with the fatherly admonition that he and his friends be “far more careful” and “far more gentle” with women to “protect” themselves.