I agree that women should be furious about women who make false allegations. On the other hand, on this story, there is no real proof that PB's claims are true either. CTV says they did their due diligence to ensure that the reporter didn't know either of the woman. As I understand the story, a friend of PB's takes a guess about who the woman is and based on that guess, says she and the reporter were friends.
In his response to the accusations last weekend, Brown repeated the earlier claim that the reporter and the accuser know each other.
Clearly Patrick Brown himself knows who the accuser is. Her explanation of her role at the constituency office, how they met, and so on, means there couldn't be two women who meet the description. Brown's friends would probably know as well. Certainly those who were at the party that night would know who she is. It's not top secret information... it was a constituency office, not a CIA black site. And if you look at my own detective work on the previous page, you can see that the woman named Frank Magazine seems likely.
So it makes you wonder if CTV actually did any research on the relationship between the reporter and the witness, or if they got caught with their pants down and are making the claim that they did their homework as a matter of legal butt-covering.
As for the other woman, maybe she lied deliberately, or maybe the incident happened as she said but she really was mistaken about exactly when. I don't think its unusual for people to remember something significant, but not recall exactly how old they were at the time.
Two things about that. First off, getting significant details wrong-- be it the house they were actually in, or the time of year it happened, brings the whole account into question. And secondly, her age at the time and her being still in highschool is one of the factors that fueled the indignation over the story. Finding out that she had already graduated and might not have even been 18 when this actually happened changes the complexion of the story somewhat.
-k