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Steve Paikin, the popular Ontario public broadcasting host, hit back at allegations of sexual harassment with a searing Facebook post late Tuesday afternoon, calling out his accuser, former Toronto mayoral candidate, Sarah Thomson, for telling lies and saying he was “gobsmacked by the allegations.”

“I mean no harm to Sarah Thomson,” Paikin wrote on his personal Facebook page, under the heading: MY TURN. “But Sarah, you and I both know the incident you described never happened. It’s complete fiction. To be clear, I did not have sex, suggest, request, imply, or joke about having sex with you.”

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The accusation against Paikin draws a spotlight on a contentious aspect of the #MeToo movement highlighted recently by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said that women who come forward must always be believed.

Indeed, the “believe all women” refrain has become the unquestionable undercurrent to the #MeToo movement.