Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Rosie DiManno: There is a great deal for Ben Levin to be shame-faced about


He sinks lower and lower into the chair, neck disappearing beneath the collar of his suit jacket.
Covering his face with his hands in a posture of abject shame.

And indeed Ben Levin is profoundly ashamed of himself.

“I apologize unreservedly,” declares the bureaucrat who was once Ontario’s deputy education minister —though the Liberal government adamantly insists not, specifically in no way involved with the new sex education syllabus rolled out last week.

“I am deeply ashamed of theses actions and highly aware that they have caused a great deal of hurt to many people,” Levin says in a statement released Tuesday through his lawyer Clayton Ruby. “I am appalled every day that my behaviour fell so far below my own standards and previous actions, which has led to the loss of my reputation and the loss of my livelihood.”

That behaviour led to Levin, 63, being charged with seven counts of child pornography-related offences.  (more...)


Even the Red Star is red faced.

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