Male MPs, staff are bystanders to sexual misconduct, former staffer says
OTTAWA — It was 2007 and Lauren Dobson-Hughes was a young, ambitious NDP staffer on Parliament Hill when a much older MP suddenly kissed her in front of at least 20 people — and no one seemed to bat an eye.
The MP, himself a New Democrat, grabbed her around the waist and dug his fingers into her body before planting his lips on hers.
“He pulled in my head right to him and he gave me this giant wet kiss,” said Dobson-Hughes, who was 25 at the time and shaken by the encounter.
“I went to the washroom to wash his spit that was dribbling down my cheek.”