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Mr. Pacetti and colleague Newfoundland Liberal MP Scott Anderson, were both suspended from Liberal caucus Nov. 5 when allegations of sexual misconduct first emerged.

“It will not be good enough to simply say that your intentions were honourable and you were just inviting a colleague to your apartment at two in the morning to play a game of Scrabble at the end of a day of playing sports and drinking,” he wrote. “MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth.

“I now wear ‘protection’ in the form of body-worn video recording equipment. I suggest others do so too, particularly because some accusers hide behind a shield of supposed credibility which many times is not, and sometimes even hide behind a cloak of anonymity, which conceals their shameful indiscretion and complicity.”

The MP for Edmonton East, who says he will not run for re-election next September, stressed that the allegations against the two Liberal MPs are “unproven” and was critical of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s decision to suspend them “without due process.”

The 69-year-old’s statement met a confounded and then critical response. Many felt he was engaging in victim-blaming and many were aghast at the idea that he may actually wear a camera. Others raised questions about the past events in his own life to which he was vaguely referenced.

National Post

THE FULL STATEMENT Warning: Consorting Without Protection Is Risky OTTAWA – Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East, today stated that MPs that consort with others should avail themselves of readily available risk protection for their health and integrity, to prevent besmirchment when encounters run awry. “It will not be good enough to simply say that your intentions were honourable and you were just inviting a colleague to your apartment at two in the morning to play a game of Scrabble at the end of a day of playing sports and drinking. MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth. I now wear ‘protection’ in the form of body-worn video recording equipment. I suggest that others do so too, particularly because some accusers hide behind a shield of supposed credibility which many times is not, and sometimes even hide behind a cloak of anonymity, which conceals their shameful indiscretion and complicity.” Mr. Goldring made the statement in the wake of the unproven harassment allegations against two Liberal MPs by two NDP MPs, one of whom has spoken to the media while insisting her name not be published. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau suspended the accused from caucus without due process.