Ex-mayor acquitted of harassment
Gilles Deguire, who used to be mayor of Montreal North, has been acquitted of harassment of an older woman to whom he was delivering food as part of a Meals on Wheels thing. The woman alleged that Deguire had offered her money to take her clothes off.
La Presse also notes that Deguire did jail time for sexual aggression against a teenager, which makes the story a little weirder.
Tee Owe 18:11 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
Don’t see why this would make it ‘weirder’ – sexual aggression is sexual aggression, why does age of the victim matter?
Kate 19:31 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
It could have sounded like the complaint was baseless – as the judge seems to have decided – till you read that Deguire had done jail time for a previous transgression. Yikes.