So now we can be certain - the discussion about bullying, violence against women, and crime in the House of Assembly is apparently just that - talk. Words that MHA's want people to hear them saying.
Understand this - Mark Yetman was stopping rubber discs from going into a net - in front of cheering crowds and apparently to the adulation of some Members of the House of Assembly - while knowing full well he had raped a young woman in her sleep.
and this:
This convict was playing hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador because
of bail conditions not because it's where he wanted to play. He was in Ontario playing hockey with a University and he raped three women. Those are the circumstances which returned him to our province.
He was cheered on by some media outlets, at least one Minister of the Crown, adoring fans and many business sponsors after having been convicted of two other sexual assaults.
From the Ceebees site key sponsors for the team - which included the sexual predator - include Eastlink, BMO, Bud Light, Egg Producers of Newfoundland and Labrador, The Town of Harbour Grace, Esso, Canadian Tire Gas Bar, KIXX Country, Esso, and Rona.
Key questions for these companies who make money from thousands of women who buy their products is: Do you support through sponsorship of a team that includes a sexual predator -violence against women? Will you apologize to the women who were raped and all women? Were the people responsible or involved with procuring sponsorship for the corporate contribution aware that the CeeBees team included a convicted sexual offender - returned to NL in accordance with his bail conditions?
Worse than that - A Town Council supported the team. Taxpayers of the province?
There is NO excuse for dealing with this person in a different way than we deal with all sexual offenders. There is no excuse for positively mentioning the sexual predator's name in the People's House of Assembly.
There is no justification for treating this sexual predator any differently because he is a hockey player and on the team that won the Herder Cup.
Stop this hypocrisy and deal with this issue. If the House of Assembly was so outraged at the treatment of Gerry Rogers by Minister Darin King and Speaker Ross Wiseman - then why is the same House not doubly outraged at the praise given to a sexual predator in the House of Assembly.
Deal with it - if Mark Yetman did not rape three women he would not likely have been back in Newfoundland and Labrador - goal tending for the CeeBees winning team.
Finally - I can only feel bad for the men who were mentioned in the same sentence as him and feel worse for all the fine young men on the team who did not receive a mention.
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