戈迈斯被指涉性虐及暴力侵犯多名女性，负责在戈迈斯(Jian Ghomeshi, 图)的电台节目《Q》担任执行监制的Arif Noorani正处于休假，而CBC则委任对职场性骚扰具专业知识的多市律师，独立调查事件。

《Q》监制休假

CBC发言人承认，Arif Noorani决定自行休假，让CBC可以釐清事件真相。据报一名前女性监制曾透过公会代表向他投诉，指戈迈斯曾抓她，并向她提出下流的建议。CBC昨日公开Noorani一封电邮，内容指他没注意到曾发生性骚扰事件。

CBC亦宣布委任多伦多执业律师鲁宾(Janice Rubin, 右图)调查是次风波，副总裁Heather Conway呼吁曾在《Q》及戈迈斯另一个节目《Play》中工作的人士，若有任何有关滋扰、歧视、暴力和职场不当行为的投诉、忧虑或经验，可联络鲁宾，确保她能进行彻底的调查。CBC保证，谈话内容将绝对保密。

鲁宾将向CBC的高级管理层汇报调查结果，并建议可以如何解决投诉。她亦会另行撰写报告，建议电台未来可如何避免类似事件重演。

 

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CBC高层：6月份就调查过戈迈斯 没发现证据

加拿大广播公司(CBC)前电台名嘴戈迈斯(Jian Ghomeshi)丑闻爆出后，英语频道副总裁康威(Heather Conway，左图)昨日首度开腔，解释公司处理今次事件的方式。

康威昨日接受CBC节目《As It Happens》主持人欧芙(Carol Off)和首席记者曼斯布里奇(Peter Mansbridge)访问。康威提到，CBC在今年4月份首度得悉相关指控，当时戈迈斯主动向公司电台和公共事务负责人透露，《星报》正调查针对他的一 系列指控，但有关指控是来自关系破裂的前女友，涉及令人尴尬的性生活，当中牵涉“粗暴性行为”。康威形容，当时戈迈斯把事件描述为私人性生活问题。

无发现下告终

康威继而声称，后来有一名与《星报》合作的特约记者向CBC透露，有关戈迈斯的指控是来自工作场所内部，于是公司在6月对戈迈斯展开人力资源调查。人力资源负责人和电台节目监督曾会见戈迈斯节目的职员，又对戈迈斯的人力资源文件作深入剖析，但没有发现任何投诉纪录，以致调查在没有发现下告终。

康威称，直到戈迈斯在上月主动提供“影像证据”，公司才确定这不是私人性生活的问题，由于有关证据显示一名女性受伤，因此公司最终把事件性质断定为“对妇女的暴力行为”。康威称自己对员工和代言人操守的期望，远高于法律容许的标准。

事件主角戈迈斯早前已入禀法院，向CBC提出5,500万元民事索偿，但戈迈斯本人至今行踪不明。

Jian Ghomeshi investigation defended by CBC

CBC's executive vice-president of English Services Heather Conway is defending management's handling of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, saying it was not the role of the broadcaster to investigate someone's private sex life.

CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge sat down with Conway to talk about who knew what and when regarding the Ghomeshi affair, including what changed between the CBC's internal investigation in June to the days leading up to Ghomeshi being fired in October.

The former Q radio host is facing allegations from women who claim he was physically violent to them without their consent.

"Well, I think what the focus was in June was to assure ourselves that there was nothing in the workplace. And that we had nothing outside of the workplace," Conway said. "So when we did the [human resources] investigation we didn't have a means to investigate, right, we’re not the police."

"So if somebody makes allegations about rumours of somebody’s private sex life, does the employer automatically say, 'I want to start diving into your private life? I want to see everything you have, because of allegations and rumours?'

Conway said that Ghomeshi told the CBC in April that the Toronto Star was looking into allegations about non-consensual "rough sex" and that it might be embarrassing for the broadcaster.

Ghomeshi acknowledged he had engaged in "rough sex" but denied he had done anything wrong, Conway said.

"I don’t have a movie in my head of what rough sex is, right? I hear that, I think 'OK, it’s out of my comfort zone, but it is in the realm of a person’s private life.'"

Conway said the CBC's human resources department began to investigate in June after it became aware of allegations of non-consensual behaviour that may have crossed over into the workplace.

No complaints

Conway said that in their investigation, Ghomeshi's entire human resources file was looked at. She said there were no complaints in that file.

"We asked people if they had received complaints, we asked people if they had witnessed behaviour that was sexual harassment or violence, nobody said they had. We asked people who had received complaints from even outside of the CBC, nobody had, so we satisfied ourselves that the workplace was safe, that there were no complaints.

"And there was again, a confrontational conversation with him, he categorically denied, said the allegations were not true, that he had done nothing wrong, that he could prove that he had done nothing wrong, that he had had this long-term consensual relationship , and that was the subject of the Star story."

Conway said they accepted Ghomeshi's version of events.

"I don't have any complaints, I don't have any record of sexual harassment or sexual violence, and so I have to go with what I have," she said.

Conway repeated what she said in an email last week, that things shifted after CBC received evidence in October in which it became "an issue not about somebody’s private sex life but about somebody inflicting injury on another human being."

'I didn't need to see it'

Conway wouldn't go into detail about what that evidence was, only that it was evidence of "an injury to a woman" and that it "moved out of the realm of sex entirely and into an issue of violence against women."

In a separate interview with CBC's As It Happens host Carol Off, Conway said the evidence consisted of videos, photos and text messages. She said she never saw the evidence, but that it was viewed by CBC's executive director of radio and audio, Chris Boyce, and Chuck Thompson, head of CBC's public affairs.

"I didn't need to see it," Conway said.

Conway was also asked why, when presented with the evidence, the CBC did not take it to the police.

“The material in question was part of a record that was characterized by Mr. Ghomeshi and his lawyers as a proof of consent," Conway said. "Our threshold at the CBC is not one of legal consent. My expectations of the behaviour of the people at the CBC and people who represent it  is much higher than the low bar of legal consent."

​Ghomeshi has previously said he only participates in sexual activities that are consensual for both partners. He denies wrongdoing and says he will "meet these allegations directly."

Conway also addressed the issue of a former Q staffer who alleges Ghomeshi made lewd comments on two occasions on a single day in 2007. On another occasion, he groped her, the woman alleges.

The woman said she was initially scared to speak out, and confided only to close friends and colleagues. By 2010, she says she’d had enough and spoke to a colleague knowledgeable with union affairs, but didn’t file a formal complaint. Q executive producer Arif Noorani has said, "at no point was an allegation of sexual harassment brought to my attention."

Conway said that while that particular complaint was not documented, it was "not well handled."

"It appears that there was a variety of issues around that, it is being investigated by the third-party investigator that we have hired, and obviously our hope is we will get some resolution on that complaint when she has the opportunity to investigate thoroughly."
CMG union critical of Conway's remarks

But Carmel Smyth, national president for the Canadian Media Guild, criticized Conway's remarks, saying she was "deeply disappointed" that Conway "has seen fit to assign blame" in advance of the investigation.

"One would have thought there would be enough respect for the process that she'd have the patience to await the findings of the investigation," Smyth said.

She said Conway attempted to exonerate management while singling out one element by saying, "it was not well handled."

"Is this not specifically what the independent investigator has been engaged to determine?" Smyth asked. "The real question is, what did CBC management know and what did they do about it?"

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